blake-d Digest				Volume 1996 : Issue 9



Today's Topics:

	 Electronic Journal

	 BLACK HISTORY MONTH BLAKE SIGHTINGS

	 Re: looking for Frank Vaughan

	 Re: The Marriage

	 New Blake bio?

	 Re: New Blake bio?

	 Re: New Blake bio?

	       Re: h-net

	 Re: New Blake bio?

	 Call for Papers

	 Call for Papers (2)

	 Re: New Blake bio?

	       Jarmusch vs. Ackroyd

	 Re: Jarmusch vs. Ackroyd

	 Older biographies

	 Re: Doerrbecker vs. Ackroyd

	 Telecommunications Bill (fwd)



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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:31:46 +0000 (GMT)

From: Michael Laplace-Sinatra 

To: Blake List 

Subject: Electronic Journal

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The first issue of *Romanticism On the Net* - an electronic journal 

entirely devoted to Romantic Studies - is now available. *Romanticism On 

the Net* is an international quarterly academic journal.



Tables of Contents of *Romanticism On the Net* Issue 1 (February 1996):



- Kris Steyaert (University College London): 'Poetry as Enforcement: 

Conquering the Muse in Keats's "Ode to Psyche"'

- David S. Miall (University of Alberta): 'Electronic Romanticism: The CD'

- Joel Pace (Blackfriars, Oxford): 'Emotion and Cognition in *The Prelude*'

- Bruce Graver (Providence College): 'Duncan *Wu's Wordsworth's Reading: 

1770-1790*:  A Supplementary List with Corrections'



- Nicola Trott (University of Glasgow): 'On Emma Clery, *The Rise of 

Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800*'

- Matthew Scott (Magdalen College, Oxford): 'On Nicholas Roe (ed.), 

*Keats and History*'

- Mark Sandy (University of Durham): 'On David Duff, *Romance and 

Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre*'



*Romanticism On the Net* can be accessed at the following Internet 

address: 



http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385



--Michael Laplace-Sinatra

----Editor *Romanticism On the Net*

------michael.laplace-sinatra@st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk



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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:35:32 -0800

From: Ralph Dumain 

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: BLACK HISTORY MONTH BLAKE SIGHTINGS

Message-Id: <199602120035.QAA03180@igc2.igc.apc.org>



BLAKE SIGHTINGS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH





In every cry of every Man,



In every Infant's cry of fear,



In every voice, in every ban,



The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.



   - William Blake





preferatory poem to WHITE MAN, LISTEN! by Richard Wright



------------------



The tigers of wrath are wiser



than the horses of instruction.



   - William Blake





Cited at head of chapter 1, p. 1 of:



Carew, Jan R.  GHOSTS IN OUR BLOOD: WITH MALCOLM X IN AFRICA,



ENGLAND, AND THE CARIBBEAN.  Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994.



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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:48:10 -0500

From: cklivak@sequent1.providence.edu (christopher klivak)

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: looking for Frank Vaughan

Message-Id: <96Feb11.205523est.23128@gateway.providence.edu>

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>

>Can anyone tell me where I can contact Frank Vaughan, author of the 

>soon-to-be-released *Again to the Life of Eternity*....

>

>No



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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:56:48 -0400 (AST)

From: Chantell L MacPhee 

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: The Marriage

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I would just like to apologize to everyone on the Blake list. I 

innadvertently sent an email to the list by mistake.



Sorry for the inconvenience and the incoherency of my message.



Chantelle MacPhee

University of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown, P.E.I. Canada



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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 09:44:10 -0500

From: "David S. Herrstrom" 

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: New Blake bio?

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When I was in London in Nov  I spotted a new biography of B by Peter 

Akroyd, but was catching a taxi so couldn't buy it, assuming also that it 

would be in the New York bookstores.  Alas, can't find it in NY.



Is it due to be published soon in the US? Have any reviews appeared yet?



Thanks.

David



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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 09:24:11 -0600

From: tomdill@womenscol.stephens.edu

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: New Blake bio?

Message-Id: <96021409241108@womenscol.stephens.edu>



Ackroyd's _William Blake_ (published by Sinclair-Stevenson in

England) was reviewed by Malcolm Bull in the October 20, 1995

edition of the Times Literary Supplement.  Our local bookstore

has been unable to get a copy ordered from England and found

no information about American publication, though Ackroyd's 

fiction is certainly available here, so I would guess the

same publisher might offer the biography.  Bull faults the

biography for failing to give adequate attention to the 

political and religious context of Blake's life and art,

but his perspective on Blake is not mine, so I might

find Ackroyd's approach more palatable.

Tom Dillingham (tomdill@womenscol.stephens.edu)



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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 09:54:45 -0800

From: sarahclayton@earthlink.net (Sarah Clayton)

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: New Blake bio?

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>When I was in London in Nov  I spotted a new biography of B by Peter

>Akroyd, but was catching a taxi so couldn't buy it, assuming also that it

>would be in the New York bookstores.  Alas, can't find it in NY.



My parents were in London Recently, and spotted the book almost the same

way.   Over the Holidays I had spoke about Blake with them, since I was in

the middle of writing about Blak'e critique of Newton, and this somehow

stayed in their minds while they were in Merry Old. So, lucky for me, I am

the proud owner of the Blake Biography by Peter Ackroyd.



The book is amusing. Espescially for one who has only read critical works

about Blake and has always sterred clear of biographies. The color

Illustrations are commendable, and some plates I had not seen before, some

I had seen but not in color.  When he goes into his 'litereary analysis" of

Blake's texts,  he is at best a second rate John Berger. But the extent of

his research is impressive, and the biographical information is amazing,

vividly done. For instance, I had never known that Blake actually attended

the Royal Academy, even while Joshua Reynolds was its President.



"..On 8 October of that year he was enrolled as 'Blake William - 21 yrs

28th last Novr. Engr.' and given an ivory ticket of admission for a period

of six years. Although he paid no fees, he was asked to provide his own

materials."



Was this commonly known by all? I thought he had refused to be schooled and

had only been an engraver's apprentice!  Of course, Ackroyd still manages

to present Blkae as the rebel of the academy, but it seems that not only

did he attend the academy, he also met many of his life-long friends at the

academy.



Other scenes have Blake at Blue Stocking parties singing his poems.



There is a fair amount of psychologizing in this book, and of course, that

same psychologizing tends to be applied to the interopretation of Blake's

works...other than that, there is some useful information, But much of it

is rehash.



Sarah Clayton



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Date:          Wed, 14 Feb 1996 11:11:18 -0700 (MDT)

From: "DAVID CULLIMORE" 

To: blake@albion.com

Subject:       Re: h-net

Message-Id: <199602141816.LAA12824@fcom.cc.utah.edu>



I would be interested in reading and responding to any on H-net.  

Please add my name and address to your list .  thanks   Cullie



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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:00:13 -0600

From: jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu (J. Michael)

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: New Blake bio?

Message-Id: <9602141904.AA26589@uu6.psi.com>

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I was able to order a copy of Ackroyd's book from England through a company

there called Books Direct (I used to have their email address, but I

recently purged my mailboxes in an attempt to save disk space.  Maybe

someone else has it?).  The book costs 20 pounds sterling, and they added

around 4 pounds for shipping which got it here in about 10 days.  Total

dollar cost, around $35, as I recall.  It will probably be cheaper to get

it in the US when it comes out, but no one seems to know when that will be.

 I am only about halfway through the book, since my leisure reading time is

scanty and sporadic, but I find it livelier than James King's and somewhat

less given to psychoanalysis, although it does some of that.  Ackroyd's

attention to Blake's artistic methods is welcome.  Some readers may be

annoyed by his tendency to quote a line or two of poetry out of context and

insert it into the biographical narrative.  One interesting tidbit: 

Ackroyd defends the much-maligned anecdote about the naked Mr. and Mrs.

Blake "playing Adam and Eve" in their garden.  I'd be interested in other

reactions from anyone who has managed to obtain a copy.



Jennifer Michael

University of the South

jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu



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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:04:54 +0000

From: dcr 

To: blake@albion.com

Cc: dcr@aber.ac.uk

Subject: Call for Papers

Message-Id: <5475.824331894@osfa.aber.ac.uk>



			*************************

			* C O N S U M P T I O N *

			*************************



	 	      Eating -- Reading -- Shopping



	     University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 29-30 June 1996



An interdisciplinary conference on the representation of consuming or being

consumed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.



Sessions may include: The Pleasure of Consumption; Consumption and Morality;

Shopping; The Economics of Taste; Literature, Consumption, and the Market;

Consumption as Disease.



Please send abstracts (200-300 words) by 1 March 1996 to any of the following

(to whom any enquiries should also be addressed): Robert Jones, Dominic

Rainsford, or David Shuttleton, Department of English, University of Wales,

Penglais, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DY.  Direct Line: +44-1970 624300 (Jones) /

622213 (Rainsford) / 624295 (Shuttleton).  Fax: +44-1970 622530.  E-mail:

dcr@aber.ac.uk (Rainsford).



The conference is expected to run from 5 pm on Saturday 29 July till 4 pm on

Sunday 30 June.





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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:05:47 +0000

From: dcr 

To: blake@albion.com

Cc: dcr@aber.ac.uk

Subject: Call for Papers (2)

Message-Id: <3235.824331947@osfa.aber.ac.uk>



**********************************************************************

************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************

**********************************************************************



                        LITERATURE AND ETHICS



		     An International Conference



             University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 4-7 July 1996



  '[T]he word "ethics" seems to have replaced "textuality" as the most

  charged term in the vocabulary of contemporary literary and cultural

  theory' (Steven Connor, TLS, 5 January 1996).



Speakers to include: Simon Critchley (U of Essex; *The Ethics of

Deconstruction*), Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Tulane U; *The Ascetic Imperative*,

*Getting It Right*, "Ethics" in the new ed. of *Critical Terms for Literary

Study*), Dan Jacobson (University College London; South African novelist and

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Christopher Norris (U of Cardiff; *What's Wrong with Postmodernism*, *Truth and

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Anne Cubilie (Georgetown U), Andrew Gibson (U of London, Royal Holloway),

Juliet John (U of Liverpool), Willy Maley (Glasgow U), Norman Ravvin (U of

Toronto), Valeria Wagner (U de Geneve).



Papers are invited from all points-of-view within this currently lively area

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Please send abstracts (200-300 words) by 15 March 1996 to the following 

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		Dr Dominic Rainsford

		Department of English

		University of Wales

		Penglais

		ABERYSTWYTH

		Dyfed

		SY23 3DY

		UK



Direct Line: (01970) 622213 / +44-1970-622213

Fax: (01970) 622530 / +44-1970-622530

E-mail: dcr@aber.ac.uk



Abstracts may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail.



Extensive information about Aberystwyth, the University, and the Department

of English is available on the World-Wide Web:



		http://www.aber.ac.uk/







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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:32:37 -0600

From: gabejones@nwu.edu (Gabriel Jones)

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: New Blake bio?

Message-Id: <199602142139.AA103603946@lulu.acns.nwu.edu>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"



Their e-mail address is:



bookorders@booksdirect.co.uk



Also very useful is Blackwell's bookstore web site, whose address slips my

mind at the moment, but you can search "blackwell" on any searcher, e.g.

www.yahoo.com



>I was able to order a copy of Ackroyd's book from England through a company

>there called Books Direct (I used to have their email address, but I

>recently purged my mailboxes in an attempt to save disk space.  Maybe

>someone else has it?).  The book costs 20 pounds sterling, and they added

>around 4 pounds for shipping which got it here in about 10 days.  Total

>dollar cost, around $35, as I recall.  It will probably be cheaper to get

>it in the US when it comes out, but no one seems to know when that will be.

> I am only about halfway through the book, since my leisure reading time is

>scanty and sporadic, but I find it livelier than James King's and somewhat

>less given to psychoanalysis, although it does some of that.  Ackroyd's

>attention to Blake's artistic methods is welcome.  Some readers may be

>annoyed by his tendency to quote a line or two of poetry out of context and

>insert it into the biographical narrative.  One interesting tidbit: 

>Ackroyd defends the much-maligned anecdote about the naked Mr. and Mrs.

>Blake "playing Adam and Eve" in their garden.  I'd be interested in other

>reactions from anyone who has managed to obtain a copy.

>

>Jennifer Michael

>University of the South

>jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu

>

>

>

>

>

>



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Date:          Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:33:13 MET

From: "DOERRBECKER D.W." 

To: blake@albion.com

Subject:       Jarmusch vs. Ackroyd

Message-Id: <4D54A01C27@netwareserver.uni-trier.de>



February 15th, 1996



Yesterday, Sarah Clayton wrote that Ackroyd's *Blake* (1995)

> ... is amusing. Especially for one who has only read critical works

> about Blake and has always sterred clear of biographies.



As someone who occasionally not only reads critical works *and* 

biographies, but also makes regular use of G.E. Bentley, Jr.'s *Blake 

Records* (1969) and its *Supplement*, I do not find Ackroyd's mixture 

of truisms, half-truths, and anecdotes with a J.T. Smith or a 

Gilchrist tradition (not to speak of what I consider factual errors) 

particularly amusing at all. Probably that's because I lack the right 

kind of humour.



> ... When he [Ackroyd] goes into his 'litereary analysis" of Blake's 

texts,  he is at best a second rate John Berger.



Now, I do kinda like John Berger's books and essays, especially *The 

Success and Failure of Picasso*; but where did Berger (I mean John, 

not Pierre) comment on Blake? Or is it merely a general stylistic 

and/or intellectual resemblance between Peter A and John B that Sarah 

Clayton had in mind? (And what about Ackroyd and John Beer?)



Ackroyd's

> ... research is impressive, and the biographical information is 

amazing.



Amazing, that's right, but impressive? Is there anything in Ackroyd's 

research that's both new and buttressed by the presentation of the 

evidence which the author has been able to track down?



Any reader of Blake's annotations to the founding President's 

*Discourses* (in a copy of the 2nd rev. edn. of SJR's *Works*, 3 

vols., ed. Malone, 1798) will be well aware that indeed WB had been a 

student at

> ... the Royal Academy, even while Joshua Reynolds was its President.

>

> "..On 8 October of that year he was enrolled as 'Blake William - 21 

yrs > 28th last Novr. Engr.' and given an ivory ticket of admission 

for a period > of six years. Although he paid no fees, he was asked 

to provide his own > materials."

>

> Was this commonly known by all? I thought he had refused to be 

schooled and > had only been an engraver's apprentice!



For one thing, Sidney C. Hutchison, the RA's librarian, edited the 

Academy's lists of its 18th- and 19-century students for the *Walpole 

Society*'s 1960-1962 annual volume; this, I assume was Bentley's 

source, and Bentley's compilation of the *Records* (here as 

elsewhere) may well have been Ackroyd's in turn. To borrow Sarah 

Clayton's own words, much of Ackroyd's `new' biography is

> ... rehash.



For another, Sarah Clayton's phrasing, "o n l y  ... an engraver's 

apprentice", suggests that the hierarchy of artistic genres and 

techniques which was established at the RA during the 18th century is 

still very much alive in our minds. To an 18th-century painter (even 

to a painter who earned his living by designing book illustrations--

e.g., Thomas Stothard, Blake's one-time friend and later foe) it 

would have been clear that there exists a sharp line of demarcation 

between himself, a member of the elite of *artists*, and a 

reproductive engraver like Blake who was most often considered to 

belong with the `lower ranks' of society, to be `no more' than an 

*artisan*, "only" an engraver. And yet, in 1996, we may feel the need 

to question the social strategies which led to this sort of ideology 

and its physical reality (for the Blakean, Eaves's *Counter-Arts 

Conspiracy*, published by Cornell UP in 1992, is probably the best 

place to start).



Instead of paying too much attention to Ackroyd's `New Blake bio' 

then, I'd like to advise subscribers to the list to spend a few hours 

at the local cinema--having seen Jim Jarmusch's *Dead Man*, where the 

guns of `Willliam Blake' utter his `poetry', where the flower-girl 

(named `Thel') has entered the world of experience (alas! only to 

sacrifice herself for `Blake'), where the Satanic Mills are operating 

in a place called Machine, and where the wise character of `Nobody' 

recites Blake's [no inverted commas!] songs and proverbs all the 

time, one cannot stop construing possible and impossible connections 

between Blake's art, his poetry, his myth, and the Wild Wild West of 

Jarmusch's film which has opened up a new Mecca for Blake studies. 

Besides, Neil Young's minimalist soundtrack is superb. Highly 

recommended to readers of Blake and of Ackroyd, and to their 

families, too.



--DW Doerrbecker



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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:08:11 -0800

From: sarahclayton@earthlink.net (Sarah Clayton)

To: DOERRBEC@uni-trier.de, blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: Jarmusch vs. Ackroyd

Message-Id: 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"



Biography is a crapulous enterprise no matter who is involved, Ackroyd is a

Magotted Bone Muncher, Jarmusch is no better than Grave Robber who has

managed to find Blake's grave by means of his fleabitten celluloid (non)

seeing eye dog  and you, Dear DOERRBECKER, are obviously an Ass.



I am amused that my parents purchased the book for me. Just as I am amused

that my Mother buys me sweaters at christmas from the men's department at

sears that I wouldn't wear if my life depended on it. I liked the pictures.

Nice pictures. I highly recommend the pictures and very much do I recommend

the pictures highly. Lovely pictures.



The quote was Ackroyd's not mine. Read more carefully.  And furthermore, If

you feel the need to attack me for offhandedly mentioning that I was

excited about hearing that Blkae actually attended the Royal Academy, one

sentance out of 400 pages of rehash, then obviously, you  are quite

desperate for a cyber-bludgeoning. Which I will not give you.  Because I

never recommended the book in the first place. An Amusing little trifle,

like a far side cartoon or perhaps, a flame from the likes of you.



Pick on one of the listmembers who did defend the book, if you really want

to roll around in it.

Laku Noc

Sarah Clayton



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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 14:20 CST

From: MLGrant@president-po.president.uiowa.edu

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Older biographies

Message-Id: <199602152023.OAA26752@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>



        For THE life of Blake -- interesting, vividly anecdotal, and 

     probably 85% factually accurate -- see Alexander Gilchrist's 19th 

     century biography, subtitled *Pictor Ignotus.*  It is the mother of 

     all subsequent biographies and most information about Blake, such as 

     his singing his poems in Mrs. Mathew's salons and his education in art 

     from Pars's drawing school all the way through the R.A, derives from 

     this book or its sources (some of which were oral and are now lost).  

     (BTW: Keynes's *Portraiture* volume reproduces a drawing of an R.A. 

     class that MAY include B; Aileen Ward, whose biography is eagerly 

     awaited, has published biographical articles, at least one of which 

     focuses on B's student days at the Royal Academy).  I think Mona 

     Wilson's bio, often overlooked or undervalued, but containing facts 

     unknown to Gilchrist, is also interesting. Later biographers have 

     added a bit here and there but have mostly just put their own spins on 

     what's already known.  But my own favorite biographical source, 

     getting as close as possible to the original documents, is Bentley's 

     *Blake Records*; I'm pretty sure the supplement has been out for 

     awhile, but I haven't studied it. 

     

        You can overdo biographical applications, of course, but if you 

     hardly know anything at all about B's life you can find yourself 

     falling into the kinds of mistakes in interpretation that you might 

     easily have avoided just by informing yourself better.  No point in 

     building up a lot of interpretive speculation that the facts won't 

     support.  Good luck in your research.

     

     -- Mary Lynn Johnson



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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:23:28 -0600

From: jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu (J. Michael)

To: blake@albion.com

Subject: Re: Doerrbecker vs. Ackroyd

Message-Id: <9602152027.AA12083@uu6.psi.com>

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I'll let Sarah Clayton speak for herself, but I'd like to respond to D.W.

Doerrbecker's vehement remarks about Ackroyd.  Yes, we should all get our

primary information from _Blake Records_, but does anyone seriously think

Ackroyd's book was meant to supplant Bentley's?  Of course not:  it is

written for a popular audience who might be attracted by its colorful

cover.  It does not present itself as scholarly:  the footnotes indicate

sources but do not comment on those sources in any way.  Does this mean the

book is entirely without merit?  Sarah was able to discover something she

had not known before about Blake, and that to me makes the book worthwhile.

 



 My feeling about such books, as about the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet, is

that we can gripe about their faults and inaccuracies, but they will still

help to interest people in Shakespeare or in Blake, and if those people are

prompted by that experience to go pick up a text of Hamlet or the Songs,

then that's all to the good.  Blake said of Swedenborg, as some may say of

Ackroyd, that he has written no new truths and has written all the old

falsehoods.  But even those old falsehoods of Swedenborg played an

essential role in Blake's development.



Jennifer Michael



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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:53:41 -0500 (EST)

From: Gregory Warner 

To: Amy Lynne Fishkin 

Cc: blake@albion.com

Subject: Telecommunications Bill (fwd)

Message-Id: 

Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII



this defies words.



even Blake's.



sign it if it's important to you.



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>

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>>>> as of midnight, February 9.  This makes this e-mail illegal and punishable

>>>>

>>>> by jail time or heavy fines.  The federal government is abusing its power

>>>>

>>>> and its citizenry in gross violation of the Constitution.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> This e-mail can be used as a form of civil disobedience.  Please sign your

>>>>

>>>> name on the list below, and forward it to as many people as possible.  Once

>>>>

>>>> again, this e-mail is illegal, and a copy of every e-mail sent anywhere is

>>>>

>>>> also sent to the FCC.  You can also change the signature on your e-mail (if

>>>>

>>>> you use Eudora or a similar program) to have some mention of the law and

>>>>

>>>> your opposition to it.  Once you send this e-mail, you will have resisted

>>>>

>>>> the government's attempt to curtail your freedom of speech.  If every

>>>>

>>>> fifteenth person sends a copy of this e-mail to President Clinton at

>>>>

>>>> president@whitehouse.gov, maybe we can get something done about this.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> __________________________________________

>>>>

>>>> I object to the U.S. government's prohibition of any discussion of abortion

> on the internet.

>		  1. Elizabeth Katz, student, Vassar College.

>			 2. Julienne Silverman, Vassar College

> 		 3. Joanna Kalb, Cornell University

> 		 4. Lucinda Schutzman, Shoreham-Wading River High School

>		  5. Kate Murnane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

>			 6. John Evans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

>		  7. Alexandra Hartman, University of Virginia

>		  8. Sherry Edwards, Christopher Newport University

>		  9. Moin Hussaini, Johns Hopkins University

>			 10. Thomas Jones, Johns Hopkins University

>>>> 11. Steven Donnally, Johns Hopkins University

>			 12. Susanna Henighan, Oberlin College

>>>> 13. Rachel Henighan, Swarthmore College

>>   14. Jodi Sherman, Swarthmore College

>>   15. Megin Charner, Swarthmore College

>    16. Sonja Shield, Swarthmore College

>>			17. Christopher Willard, Wesleyan University

18. Elisabeth Jacobs, Yale University

>19. Gregory Warner, Yale University









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