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I love this guy; I can't say it enough.
Sep. 25th, 2003 12:30 pm"The natural enemy of the daughter is not the fathers and sons," she announced.
"I was mistaken.
"The enemy of women is not men.
"No, and the enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of the capitalist is not the communist; the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men.
"There are authoritattive blacks with dull minds, and they are the enemy. The leaders of capitalism and the leaders of communism are the same people, and they are the enemy. There are dull-mindedwomen who try to repress the human spirit, and they are the enemy just as much as the dull-minded men.
"The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.
"It is woman's mission to destroy as well as to give birth," Delores told them. "We will destroy the tyranny of the dull. But we can't destroy it with guns. Or whips. Violence is te dullard's Breakfast of Champions, and the logical end product of his or her misplaced pride. Violence fertilizes that which we would starve. But Debbie, we can't love the dull away, either. We only pollute our own waters when we try to extend our true affection to those who don't know how to accept love or to give it. Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
"No, we will destroy the enemy in other ways ... It will come to each of you, to every cowgirl in the land, when you have overcome that in your own self which is dull."
--Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
"I was mistaken.
"The enemy of women is not men.
"No, and the enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of the capitalist is not the communist; the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men.
"There are authoritattive blacks with dull minds, and they are the enemy. The leaders of capitalism and the leaders of communism are the same people, and they are the enemy. There are dull-mindedwomen who try to repress the human spirit, and they are the enemy just as much as the dull-minded men.
"The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.
"It is woman's mission to destroy as well as to give birth," Delores told them. "We will destroy the tyranny of the dull. But we can't destroy it with guns. Or whips. Violence is te dullard's Breakfast of Champions, and the logical end product of his or her misplaced pride. Violence fertilizes that which we would starve. But Debbie, we can't love the dull away, either. We only pollute our own waters when we try to extend our true affection to those who don't know how to accept love or to give it. Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
"No, we will destroy the enemy in other ways ... It will come to each of you, to every cowgirl in the land, when you have overcome that in your own self which is dull."
--Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues