Re: Klingon

In a message dated 2004:01:05 12:42:12 AM, buzz writes:

>* translating the bible into Klingon
>
>They should definitely put this project on the front burner.
>If we could make Christians of those Klingons, they would stop being such
cosmic >bullies

 and heathen savages prone to bloody alcoholism and general brawling mayhem

>and treat their women properly.
    like all goodly & properly fascistic misogynistic monotheistic cultures
thru out all Time&Space

>Ultimately, we could DO BUSINESS with
>them.
>Think of the markets that would open (eyes glaze over).
    Spoken like a certain verrrry open-ear/minded, Klingon-friendly species
of true bleu _Kapitalische Uber Alles_ Ferengi ;)


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Hanuman Zhang

"Space is a practiced place." -- Michel de Certeau

"Space is the Place for the Human Race." -- William S. Burroughs

"... simple, chaotic, anarchic and menacing.... This is what people of today
have lost and need most - the ability to experience permanent bodily and
mental ecstasy, to be a receiving station for messages howling by on the ether from
other worlds and nonhuman entities, those peculiar short-wave messages which
come in static-free in the secret pleasure center in the brain." - Slava Ranko
(Donald L. Philippi)

    The German word for "noise" _Geräusch_ is derived from _rauschen_ "the
sound of the wind," related to _Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication" hinting at some
of the possible aesthetic, bodily effects of noise in music. In Japanese
Romaji: _uchu_ = "universe"... _uchoten_ =  "ecstasty," "rapture"..._uchujin_ =
[space] alien!

    "For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the
world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It
is for the hearing. It is not legible, but audible. ... Music is a herald,
for change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society. ...
Listening to music is listening to all noise, realizing that its appropriation and
control is a reflection of power, that is essentially political." - Jacques
Attali, _Noise: The Political Economy of Music_