RE: (TV) Quasi-Yeats / Contest

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Pretty damn close.

The quote is from Sam Shepard's 1972 
play, "Cowboy Mouth", which P. Smith 
then Shepard's girlfriend helped with.

	Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark G. Ryan [mailto:mgryan@cruzio.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:14 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Quasi-Yeats / Contest


>From "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>:
> 
> The first 3 people who can identify passage below and its 
> 'connection' to Yeats, will be given the exact GPS co-ordinates 
> of the CC's upcoming cd drop/dump into the Atlantic, rented 
> row boats and nets.
> 	Leo

Don't recognize the quote, so have to rely on textual evidence:

> "...in the old days people had a Jesus and those people to 
> embrace... They created a god with all their belief energies... 

Ugh...the New Age/spirtualist use of "energy".    Probably an
American....

> and when they didn't dig themselves they could lose themselves 
> in the Lord.  But it's too hard now. We're earthy people and 
> the old saints just don't make it, and the old God is just too 

Definitely an American.   "dig"--either this was written around
1965-1975, or the author is a hippie.  

> far away. He don't represent our pain no more. His words 

"no mo'" Feining black English--uptight liberal American.

> don't shake through us no more. Any great motherfucker 

Can say "motorscooter"--obviously in touch with the comman man.
But not a hippie.  Must be late 60s early 70s...sound more like
East Coast than West Coast.

> rock'n'roll song can raise me higher than all of Revelations. 
> We created rock'n'roll from our own image, it's our child.... 
> a new savior, rockin' toward Bethlehem to be born."

This is prophetic yammering, but rather clever.  Let's see...who's 
a rocker who is given to prophetic yammering about Jesus...um, 
Patti Smith?

Mark
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