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| | c o m m u n i c a t i o n s | |
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...presents... Curious Lack of Vigor
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by Clench
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>>> a cDc publication.......1994 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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There were many of them, and they were all in the same place, roughly,
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though they had came and left at different times. Outwardly, to casual
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observers, they all appeared normal but for their singular, strange obsessions.
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One of them, perhaps the first, collected hats and gloves. His childhood
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frustration at his father's abandonment of his family, combined with his
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mother's stern, clerkish demeanor, manifested one day in this behavior.
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Another, believing he was excluded from the middle-class which he so
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aspired to join by his illegitimate birth, began collecting crushed melons in
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the trunk of his car.
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A third, beaten severely by his father on a routine basis and sold into
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slavery with his sister for a brief period of time, finally gave in to his
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uncontrollable urge to wrap empty presents and top them with a neatly tied bow.
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They had many justifications for their strange actions. "I am striking
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out at my mother for never giving me the affection I needed as a child," the
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glove and hat collector claimed. "The hats and gloves are souvenirs, symbols
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of affection that I take and keep. My proof is that my victims are always
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women. By taking their hats and gloves, I am symbolically taking the affection
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I was denied from my mother."
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"By crushing the melons, I am expressing my power and worthiness to be a
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member of the middle class," claimed the second. "While I am crushing the
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melons, I feel powerful. I feel a great feeling of successfulness when the
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melon crushes, and a feeling of accomplishment. I keep the melons in my trunk
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so that they will always be available for when I finally get the opportunity to
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demonstrate my worthiness to those whose job it is to admit me."
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"I am striking out at society and rebelling against my father," claims the
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bow-tier. "I wrap the presents and exercise great skill in tying the bows,
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then I strategically place the presents where they will be found. Imagine the
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excitement the finder feels when they stumble on these packages, neatly wrapped
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and exquisitely tied, and imagine their disappointment when the presents prove
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empty. My rebellion succeeds through demoralization."
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Yet, in spite of these cogent descriptions, conventional psychology can
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only point to flattened affect and looseness of association. "Classic
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symptoms," psychologists will claim, never admitting the pristine beauty of nor
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fittingness of these actions into their analyses.
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.ooM |Copyright (c) 1994 cDc communications and Clench. |
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\_______/|All Rights Reserved. 08/01/1994-#272|
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