Because liberals think tenure has granted them academic freedom from thinking.
Captain McGucken:
Ahoy, Ahab! I must tell you I've thoroughly enjoyed THE JOLLY ROGER. You and the other RED AVENGERS are doing a great service for us lovers of Great Literature who are held captive in the Gulag (in my case, Stanford University, home of "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture's got to go!"). I had been downcast of late, without hope of escape, but THE JOLLY ROGER stormed the harbor, bearing the banner of TRUTH, and now I will leap aboard her and sail the Seven-Cyberseas, thus ending this run-on sentence.
Thanks for the opportunity to join THE CONSERVATIVE LITERARY REVOLUTION. I, too, love the GREAT BOOKS, and some good ones, as well (by Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, G K. Chesterton, C S. Lewis, J R R. Tolkien, et al, who, of course led me straight to the GREAT BOOKS). Also, I share your disdain of liberals in high places who seem to exist purely to kill the human spirit by first destroying the human spirit's GREAT BOOKS. May God have mercy on them, as we sure won't!
Good luck to you and the other RED AVENGERS!
I am yours most cordially,
James "Captain Redbeard" Harris
The Stanford Gulag
First of all, I love your site. I'm as liberal as a man can be, but I know good original ideas when I see them, and I also think you guys have a good sense of fun. I also agree with you on a surprising number of things: I also think Beavis & Butthead, Nirvana, Herman Melville, Plato and Neitzsche are cool, and I also think Joyce Carol Oates and the NY literary establishment suck ...
The main difference between us, I think, is that I cast my love for Melville & Plato and these other cool types in a liberal light, and I also love Jack Kerouac, the Grateful Dead, Mahatma Gandhi, Bob Marley and Bill Clinton -- well, okay, I *like* Bill Clinton (at least as of this writing.) Whereas I imagine you love Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich and those jerks who wrote "The Bell Curve," and I don't even want to *know* what you think about the L.A. Police Department.
Anyway, I've been espousing my own literary point of view on the Web since July of last year, and I'll even expose myself to the point of inviting you to visit, knowing full well that I may end up on your hate list for my leftie points of view. One of my sites is Literary Kicks, devoted to the Beat Generation, and the other is Queensboro Ballads, a work of fiction in the form of an imaginary early 60's folk-rock album. The last piece in this work, actually, is called "Loomings" and is inspired by you-know-who. Anyway ... hope our paths will cross, in both friendly and challenging ways, as the web continues to grow.
>Put on your best red bandanna, sign aboard, and help us pirate the >treasures of the Western Heritage the liberals have buried 'neath nihilism, >feminism, postmodernism, and bureaucracy.
Hi Elliot:
The Jolly Roger has won a coveted "Feature Link" position on The Big Eye at http://www.coolsite.com/goodurls/bigeye.htm (Page #1). Check it out!
The Big Eye has been selected "Hotspot of the Day" for 9/18 by Fred Langda of Windows, Home PC, and NetGuide Magazines.
Best, Stewart
Dear Sirs and Fellow Students,
I have found your www page. Upon browsing the scope of your message, I became moved to write and let you know that I appreciate what you have to say and support the cause. I too have felt the emptiness of the brassly commercial Generation X (cheaply imposed on us by the MTV management). I am also disappointed with todays view of creative writing (yes, I too have enrolled in such classes as a young idealist). I have lived your creed long before it appeared in the syntax of a www page. Gentlemen, I am one with your thoughts. Please consider me a fellow seaman of the good ship Jolly Roger. Let the word be reborn, and rise to once unthought heights. It must not be sullied by the base surroundings of our time. Let it rise, let it rise. Write me, let me know ... by god let me know.
yours in true literature,
Hello Elliot.
I got a great big kick out of your post and letter to the president of Princeton. I like the style and I like the content. You sound like my kind of guy.
I'm curious about what it is you are doing exactly. I mean, are you and the other two signatories of your post part of some sort of organized assault on the bastions liberalism, or is it just a thing done in free time, for fun (a not-so-organized assault)?
The reason I ask is that I'm absolutely intrigued by the quality of what you're saying and the breezy, knowing defiance with which you say it. Your thoughts on pop culture particularly appeal as I have just started in on research for a book I'm planning tentatively titled _De-Generation: Youth in the Age of Philosophic Decadence_. It is to be a work of individualist cultural analysis based on neo-Aristotelean principles ferreting out the philosophic premises and historical influences underlying and manifest in the present bankrupt youth culture.
Additionally, I'm working on a novel the form of which is inspired by "Great Books" and I write poetry here and there, which, to the chagrin of my professors, insists on coming out in rhyme and meter (not always well, but here and there...). So naturally your post resonated more than a little with me and I was wondering if you could fill me in on just what it is that you're hoping to accomplish (besides winning the Nobel Prize). I sense that I might be willing to take part, or maybe already am in my own way. I'd just like to hear more.
Thanks for the entertaining and edifying post and thanks for reading this. I hope to hear from you.
- Will Wilkinson
Good Grief! A bit wordy, but well stated. I declare an aliance with your philosophy. Thank you.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. >>>
--Bill Yates
Your witty words and jolly poems cheered my day. I have some poems about the people who have suffered most from affirmative action: "white trash" guys (of whom I is one). Interested?
Elliot, I've changed my mind. After reading the first chapter section you left for us, from The After Dark Field Book it's clear you really can write.
- - - - - - - - - - - - David Neiman / Los Angeles Times
Your web page is loads of fun, guys. Good luck!
Just remember your opponents are dead already even though people pretend otherwise.
Keep it flying!
I hope that you fellows are successful with your endeavor!
As a recent graduate of the Ohio State University, I spent the past 4 years battling the LiberalEstablishment(tm). There were some victories, and plenty of defeats.
What it did was allow me to crystallize my beliefs, learn to defend them, and be able to use my sword of truth more effectively.
I was truly in the minority - white, male, Christian, conservative, gun-owning, and Republican.
It's ironic that the establishment is now liberal, with the conservatives being the radicals.
Viva la revolution!
I recently joined this group, and I must say, BRAVO!!!!!!!!!! It is refreshing to know that a new generation is taking on and challenging the REACTIONARY professoriate and their administrative Black Shirts. Ironic, isn't it, that many of these PC psuedo-intellectuals who now dominate the positions of power in America's colleges and universities were, in the 60's, themselves "radicals" and members of the so-called "Free Speech Movement"? What a JOKE! This bunch of pretenders is perhaps the most reactionary and intolerant group ever to inhabit academia. And what about the Free Speech Movement? Free Speech, indeed! This from the knaves who are behind Speech Codes and Hate Crimes legislation.
BLOODY HYPOCRITES AND COWARDS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The majority of today's "professors" do not really seek truth, nor do they really believe in free speech, free thought, diversity, or "multi- culturalism." They are the New Reactionaries. Their mentality and cultural affinities are tribal and primitive; their world view myopic, intolerant, negative, anti-Western, and simply "ANTI."
Again, I applaud this group for what it is doing! I am a tail-end Baby Boomer who went to school in the late 70s and early 80s. Their were no groups like yours when I was in school. Nearly all of my classmates towed the PC line before it was known as PC. The herd mentality, Nietzsche called it. The same mentality that still afflicts large numbers of professors, administrators, and students.
March on, Jolly Roger! I look forward to hearing more from this group and making postings myself.
Tom Gordon
Hi. I'm on the Jolly Roger mailing list and it is a welcome arrival when it appears in my mail box. This is to inform you that I have made a link to the Beaconway Press homepage on one of my pages. Please inform me of any objections. I currently don't advertise my pages in any way as they're not that cool, but I may in the future. Actually, I'd love a good description for your page because the one I have isn't so great.
homepage http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/chrisr/chrisr.html
entertainment page (where the link is located) http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/chrisr/entertan.html
Chris Rock
Just wanted to say keep up the good work. In light of the media's new attack on 'right-wingers' and demonization of all things conservative, it's good to know that others are out there standing their ground. We're in a culture war and conservatives are going to have to get better at offensively and defensively selling our message to the masses. The media is the battleground, and fortunately, as THE JOLLY ROGER is demonstrating, there are many young conservatives who are skillfully fighting back in the liberal's war against freedom.
March on!
Joey Dutton jdutton@comp.uark.edu
Keep the sails high and the rudder straight. Though it may seem that at times you're in uncharted waters, you will discover that the adventure is well worth the challenge. True THOUGHT requires the effort that few will expend. As it is said, "Success is a DECISION, not a happening." Very few ever wander the bounds of the Nightly News.
Talk@ya-later...............................danj
Wonderful! Keep writin'!!
I like a good bit of what I saw on your pages. Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know what you think of Ayn Rand's novels _The Fountainhead_ and _Atlas Shrugged_. diana.
-=- Diana Mertz Brickell -=- Washington University -=- St-Louis, MO -=- All religions are at the deepest level systems of cruelties. -Nietzsche -=- diana@artsci.wustl.edu -=-=- http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~diana -=-
I always like those sorts of pieces where you wonder
I really enjoyed your web managerie. Some of those
You guys are pretty good writers. A well conceived
If you haven't checked his stuff out, you should read Larry
Maybe I will subscribe. I get alot of e-mail
Thanks and ciao
--Dave
I've just read my 2nd installment of the Jolly Roger and have found it to be, well, OUTSTANDING!!! My best wishes to you in this venture.
I need some advice. I'm beginning my studies as a Doctoral candidate at Brown University's School of Engineering this fall. I am, indeed, delivering myself into the hands of my (our) enemy. Though the Engineering school is still moderately non-liberal (after all, you CAN'T deny the work of white, male Europeans in engineering and science), I can't help but notice the general ultra-liberal demeanor of the University at large. There is, in fact, a fully functioning Socialist organization on campus (full of rich white kids, which I find very silly). The question: how do I keep my bearings and avoid being dragged by my feet through the campus with the word "FASCIST" inked to my chest?
Again, good luck to you. I now prepare myself for battle, armed with the 'Beacon of TRUTH' (the only weapon we'll ever need), and itching for combat. AVAST YE LIBERAL SEA-SWINE! PREPARE TO BE BOARDED!!
I found about about you through a message posted on the Derrida mailing list. I'm an-about-to-be grad student trying to make sense, and what you guys say comes pretty close. That would be why I want to find out more, maybe write and definately read and see what happens.
Get back to me soon please as I may be switiching addresses soon.
Excellent!! Damn, bloody excellent!!
RJGrace
***** Cap'n!, *****
Thanks for the Jolly Roger. I'm a screenwriter (a rare conservative in Hollywood, sir <; ), I merely dabble in prose without pretense.
Incidentally, I feel compelled to mention, in view of your @PHYSICS berth up there, earlier in life (that university era <; ) physics & math was me gig, too.
Smooth seas and strong winds to ye.. air's good here--isn't it?!
Once again thanks .. thanks .. THANKS .. for The Roger!
Amazing that someone has finally realized conservative<-->art thing
Best, JP May (Paul Noble)
To whoever this may concern:
Hello, my name is Steve Chaney.
I saw your home page today, 6/5/95. I was rather impressed!
I have begun my own web page just for the hell of it, but for a different reason.
I founded the Rush Limbaugh Channel on IRC, in November of 1992. It has stayed alive ever since, and has been the beacon on IRC for conservatism. Nevertheless, we can never make enough connections with other points of light on the Internet! :)
I have added your page to mine, and would like to get my page added to yours: http://www.crl.com/~gunhed. My theme concentrates mostly on our independence from the honorless acts of some of our own GOPers; and now I am working on the long, vast task of listing the endless hypocrisies and honorlessness of the Left. Anything you see from it, feel free to use; conversely I'd like to catch some info that you might be getting, as well.
love this home page ;)
I look forward to hearing from you soon. I encourage you to find out about IRC, too, in which you can talk to thousands of people, live, from around the world, live!
-- Steve
On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, David M. Bardallis wrote:
Greetings, me hardies!
It does my soul good to see other seadogs out there pillaging the wastelands of the intellectual elite.
After 5 years in college (so I took my time, sue me) getting a BA in English Lit, I felt like I was the only person who valued, defended, and sought to ADVANCE the Western Tradition in literature. I thought, looking around at the vacuous and drooling faces in my Milton and Shakespeare classes, that I was the only one who took great joy in what he was reading, and in expressing my reaction to the material in my term papers.
Recently, I bought Prof. Harold Bloom's new book _The Western Canon_. One section of the book is entitled "An Elegy for the Canon." It troubled me when I read it -- How can we eulogize the Western Canon? That is the same thing as saying, "I have no use for my mind anymore - time to throw it away." At the same time, however, I noted with sadness that the few professors who speak and write about the canon are old and won't be with us much longer.
Then I came across your Web site! Like you mentioned, you guys are just saying things that I already thought - only I figured I was the only one who thought these things, thanks to the monopoly on communication the anti-American, anti-Western, anti-mind "liberal" elite bozos have. The WWW has ended that. No wonder all the blubbering, whining, self-serving liberals are now crying about the "need" to "protect society" from all the porn and bomb-making info that just abounds on the Internet. The real motivation for censorship is obvious to even the biggest moron among us.
Well, screw that. I'm getting sick of my actions, my words, and my very thoughts being censored for the "public good." The "public" be damned! It's time to give the Big Middle Finger of Truth to the liberal establishment and tell them if they think Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, multi-culturalism, and all the other -isms they wish to force on us are such great ideas, there is a country called China that has put them into practice - for the public good, no doubt. They may move there and we will not stop them.
It wasn't until relatively recently I realized all of my friends are either engineering or computer science majors, and still more recently that I found out why. They are, as you put it, "linear-minded" and logical. They don't muse about whether or not they exist - they take joy in their lives and their work. They don't question whether or not their mind exists - they use it to analyze, design, and build the engines that move civilization. They don't question objectivity - because if they did, their work would be impossible.
On the other hand, my fellow "humanities" students have accepted that things are somehow different with respect to poetry, prose, and literary criticism. They have followed the lead of the School of Resentment (as Prof. Bloom calls the "liberal" establishment) and surrendered their minds and their values to an intellectual vacuum. The School of Resentment makes no inroads into the physical sciences because their ideas are so laughably stupid as a way to accomplish anything. But they have destroyed my field because not enough people stood up to them and defended, rationally, objectively, the virtue of the Canon. In the English and so-called "social science" departments, their moronic drivel is easier to pass off under the veneer of "different opinions," etc. If an engine is built like crap and doesn't run, no one can argue that it is. If a piece of writing sucks, it takes a little brainpower to explain why it does. The School of Resentment took Mr. Ellsworth Toohey's advice from Ayn Rand's _The Fountainhead_ - if you can't measure up to the standard, you destroy the standard. Insist there are no standards and anything goes.
But I've prattled on long enough. Keep up the good work, and please add me to the list of Jolly Roger's subscribers. Let me aboard, even if only to swab the deck. It's time to flush the hateful, envious, unproductive, whiny, self-serving, deterministic, destructive liberal crap down the sh---er of history and get this country and its culture back on track!
I like your site... let's swap links! Is unc.edu at Chapel Hill? My brother
flunked out of UNC in '68, although my mother and uncle are grads. I would
have rather gone there, but my father twisted my arm and I ended up at
Annapolis which I hated for four years. I also lived in the NC smokies
before I moved to Oklahoma.
V/R
Dave
(USNA '68, Ollie's class)
Incredible!
Of course, I never expected to find a group who had similar experiences
as me at Princeton, for God's
Needless to say, my exodus was rather hasty, since I didn't want to
invest many years of education in a field, on the off chance that I might get
a teaching job(my goal is to be a professor, since teaching anything
less than college level appeals about as much as eating nails) to have to
deal with THAT crap for the rest of my life. Now, when I have to struggle
through Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics, all I have to do is remember that,
and boy, how much easier it is to face a differential equation than a non-
defined fog of cyanide gas that seems to be today's Literature field.
All things considered, Permission to come aboard?
Guy
FROM: Keith Miller
Elliot:
I am subscribed to the Jolly Roger. I love it!
I will soon be subscribing to Blackbeard.
I have just finished registering the URL with several search
services including those you mentioned.
I appreciate your posting my book. Do you think I should leave the
amount of the posted material the same, or should I post more?
If you have any more ideas on how to get your WWW page in front of
more people, let me know. I will tell everybody I know in addition
to posting your address all around the WWW.
Thanks and please stay in touch... Keith
I must go down to the sea again,
Bravo and three cheers for those that refuse to be consumed by the self-
proclaimed intelligensia.
I have added you to my bookmarks and intend to visit you often. I am
thrilled by your declaration of literary excellence. Congrats on a truly
excellent and original page. I am adding a link to you on my homepage.
Kelly M.
Ahoy!
I've been an avid reader of the Jolly Roger and have circulated copies to
many computer-shy NAS members. The news of both a web site and a REAL
conservative intellectual listerv are great; indeed may even get more NASers
to go on-line.
I just now looked at your home page and it promises to be a wonderful
resource (except the graphics took forever to load in Netscape, guess its
time for that 28.8 modem). I checked out the info on the National
Association of Scholars and it's concise and accurate (except for a small
typo--we don't have any 'rehional' affiliates). You may also want to
include info about the opportunity to get the NAS Science News List if your
a member (there's also a snail-mail version too that look's more presentable).
Speaking of the NASSNL, I'll include a blurb about both the home page and
Blackbeard's Cabin in the next issue. There have been many requests from
the academic community for this type of thing.
Moreover, I'm in the process of designing a home page for the NAS and the
Jolly Roger will be a link. I'll let you know when it's up and running,
probably in mid-August.
Thanks again for not only letting us know about the site and server; but
also including the information on the NAS.
Regards,
Rita Zurcher
Dear Elliot,
Alas, I did not pen this classic bit o' verse. It is from a much larger
work by who.....I can't even remember. But it made a big impression on me
because I studied it in 7th grade, at, you guessed it --private school,
and---still remember it! The cadence always reminded me of waves gently
slapping on the hull of this poet's ship. Anyway, I am off to the library
after I finish this email and will look up the poet for you.
My home page address is http://www.regent.edu:80/~kellmal. It
started as an assignment for Dr. Morken's policy writing class, hence the
public policy influence. However, if I had my druthers, I'd devote my
page to Virginia history and the arts. There have to be enough links to the
NRA homepage aren't there? If you visit today, please don't be offended
that I have not yet linked your page. I have a final tomorrow. I hate
summer school. Besides I only found your page when I should have been
writing my own papers. You guys are addicting. I read quite a bit of ALL
THOSE PAGES. The battle with the feminist professor was quite humorous.
I had a professor at sedate and smug Southern Methodist Univ. suggest that
the only way to really stretch my horizons was to embark upon a 3-way with
my roommate and her boyfriend. Don't ya' just love higher education?
What a meaningless, naive shell I would have been without it.
ttfn
kelly
In my search of the web, looking for true creative writing material,
it was a joyous occasion when I stumbled upon your homepage. My first
thought was, "No, this can't be real!" Still, I hoped that it wasn't
just a joke or a dream, and began reading all the linked material.
Imagine my joy when I realized that you guys were serious about taking
back literature from the powers-that-shouldn't-be.
You see, I recently managed to stage a small "coupe" here at Emporia
State University (Emporia, Kansas 66801), and got elected President of a
student group we call the Society for Creative Writers and Movie Makers
(SCWM) (SCWM@ESUVM1.EMPORIA.EDU). Although universities in Kansas are
not quite as bad as those closer to the coasts, we still have our share
of liberalism to fight on a daily basis.
Actually, it wasn't much of a coupe. All of the members had become
so disenchanted with the modern "literature" (and the idiot who was
running it) that the only members who showed up to vote were my
supporters. In fact, the former president didn't even bother to show up
because he didn't think we would have anybody else willing to accept an
office. Boy was he surprised when we told him that, not only was he not
the president, he wasn't an officer of any sort!
Anyway, I wanted to drop you a line to say, "Keep up the good work!"
and "Keep in touch!" I look forward to aid and fellowship in creating a
new conservative writers.
I found your fields of expertice to be quite interesting. You see,
I am studying in the field of mathematics as well. I started out working
on my Computer Engineering degree, but have since switched to pursue a
teaching certificate to educate the future of America about math and
computers. (I know, there's quite a difference in pay, but some things
in life are more important than your salary.)
Perhaps the true intelligence responsible for our comprehension of
the laws of God and nature have allowed us to foresee that which must
occur. I, for one, am ready to help spread this word (and hasten it as
well). Let us unite one and all and show the world that, like the house
built on the sand, Liberalism must fall before the wave of conservatism
that is sweeping from the heartland and retaking control of America!!!
Andrew W Applegarth
I just finished reading some excerpts from Drake's sonnets for physicists. Are there
other similar sites? I really enjoyed them. I sort of stumbled across this
page and
there weren't any links other than this e-mail link. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
Jason C. Phelps
phleppy@mainelink.net
Elliot,
Thanks for the July 2 posting, which I just got around to today. I look
forward to many other discussions about leftist mutilation of the popular
culture. My own particular axe-to-grind is in mystery/thriller fiction. It
seems
that in recent years the genre has become dominated by authors, and
hence characters, who are so reflexively liberal that they don't recognize
the possibility that a civilized adult could be anything else. I get very
tired of
the snotty attitude of authors and characters that conservatives are
baby-killing, old-folk starving, wilderness raping corporate thugs and
barbarians. And it's a truth as immutable as breathing air.
Recently I've been venturing into this morass, and while I cannot claim to
write "wholesome" stories, they are at least written from an anti-left
perspective. I hope subtlely, but the perspective is there nonetheless. My
first novel is complete and being shopped around, but it is awfully
frustrating to get dozens of rejections without even getting anyone to read
the manuscript. (I have come to the conclusion that the publishing game is
populated by people, who, how shall we say this delicately, are scoundrels,
slugs, thieves, and liars.) One of my main evil characters has been
described (by a lesbian friend of mine) as "a paranoid's worst nightmare
about Hillary Clinton." High praise indeed. Her comment was especially
interesting given the fact that I invented the character in about 1982. That
she spouts squishy-lib platitudes surely helps make her endearing to the NY
crowd. I also link the radical movement of the 60's to the commie-libs on
campus and in Congress today, so I'm making friends on all fronts.
Notwithstanding my remarkable lack of success thus far, I keep plugging
away on the second book. Fortunately I have a day job. Keep on
agitatin'. From the belly of the Beast,
Don Williams
sign me up or down or all around
A bloody good CybMag by thunder!
My name is Jason Stuart. The "Jolly Roger" was interesting; my personal
preferences lie with the Augustan poets. With the exception of Swift,
they have been largely ignored at each school I have attended. Though I
know that there is still vital and important critical work being written
on this period, it seems that Pope's "Rape of the Lock" or one of his
essays is taught in a 100-level survey course (Dryden is barely even
mentioned) as an introduction to (allegedly) more important and
"enlightened" Romantic poets. A clear prejudice in preference has always
manifested itself, at that point, in the Professor's estimation of the
two periods. I understand that my experience is limited and my own point
of view prejudicial (though I find the merits of the Augustans easily
defended), but what scares me is the talk heard, at each of these
institutions, of eliminating Shakespeare from the curriculum. I fear he
will suffer the same fate as my beloved Restoration poets.
Please tell me my experience has misled me, that my fears are naive and
that the fine poetry of the eras mentioned above (or any era that has
produced time-honored quality of thought, no matter how noxious to the
new canon-smashers) has a protected place in academia today.
And send me The Jolly Roger.
Thanks
J. Stuart
I was really impressed with your Great Books page. I just finished a
page myself on the Great Books. I got the idea from the time I spent in
the Great Books Program at Mercer University in Macon, GA. My page isn't
the quality of your page, but it is a start. If you want to look at it
the URL is http://roger.vet.uga.edu/~lnoles/grtbks.html.
Lewis Noles
Dam mailer.
Anyway, the sight of the Jolly Roger and all you entail has caused my spirits to soar and my mind to turn. I look forward to communicating with you on a regular basis.
Could I be put on your mailing list please ?
Thanks, and keep up the indelible work.
I like your Web site. I'm surprised the University hasn't shut it down.
-Eric
P.S. Check out http://www.berkeleyic.com/gop
I am delighted to see fellow conservative twentysomethings with intellectual
aspirations. Living and working here in Washington DC for the government, I can tell you that there are far too many goose-stepping Newt-worshippers who don't
have a clue what He stands for or what Conservatism really means. Please
subscribe me to your Jolly Roger journal, and keep the Revolution alive. Thanks and good luck.
From: "D. Newcom"
Just visited your web page, have to say it looks great. I love what you
have to say, do you have other information - love to read it. By the
way, I assume that you are still in school, what degree are you going
for? just curious. If you come out with anything new please let me
know. I would love to get something like this started on my campus, but
not sure how it would go over, being in a small, midwest town.
Thanks again,
Derek
p.s. Are there any other good links I might try out?
Sorry to keep writing you, but I showed some friends of mine your web
pages. We were wondering if we could either publish or just reprint
some of your articles that you have on the web. We would give you full
credit and list your web page, too. I hope we can. We put out a
newspaper, unofficial, and would love to include your ideas. Maybe we
could get people to start and think.
Thank you,
Derek
Elliot,
Are you up for any guest spots on talk-radio? There is a super am out of
Denver, KOA-AM. The station reaches 38 states and 1.5 million on a good
night. I have been on the station 3 times in the past month as a guest.
Last week they kept me on for 2 hours! Let me know. I will be glad to tell
a producer there all about you. You touch my heart, McGucken, with your
words. DON'T STOP!
I was reading the August HARPERS today. (Have you read it? It is on the
topic of publishing on the net ..who needs publisher's row etc..) It was
very you. Get a copy if you can.
I just stopped by and enjoyed your work. I will include your site in our
links. I work for Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL. Visit
our site at: http://www.magicnet.net/rts
Are you at Chapel Hill?
I am from Charlotte (Concord really) and am planning to move back to NC
after I finish my masters in theology. Ill probly go to work with a
Multimedia developer there.
Anyway, great stuff. Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Hal Cline
winfield@gate.net
Just a line or two -- dropped in on your sight, plan on doing
so again -- some interesting writing & exciting in this day &
age to see this spirit. Wonder, however, how long this
conservative wave has to go before it crests. Attacking
liberal elite culture based on consumerism is fine & all (as
is anything, main thing I can agree with here is freedom of
speech, tho you seem to be ambivalent on this point if it
isn't your point of view), but to say liberals in power are
indicative of the tradition is bunk. The ideals expressed
throughout America's social reform tradition have never truly
been implemented, rather programs that basically throw money
at the effect, & do not address the cause. I'm sure a lot of
you'll disagree on that, but it is food for thought, &
politics never stays in one place for long.
In any case, very interesting stuff. Enjoyed reading, if for
nothing else but to get a line on your views, & plan to again
-- am also a host of a radio poetry show up here (Fairbanks,
Ak) & plan on giving your declaration of independence the
treatment in my own forum. Hope you fare well.
Write sometime, if you can find time. I'm a dope on this
internet stuff, but I've e-mail: fseej@aurora.alaska.edu.
Thanx again for the food.
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I've just caught up to The Jolly Roger a few days ago after
seeing a reference in alt.politics. I'm afraid it's going to
take some time before I understand enough to come aboard.
However, being a 44-year old boomer, let me suggest that just
as Gen-X'ers are not all of one type, neither are boomers.
(Although I must admit that my generation's propensity for
self-righteousness makes us hard to love as a group. This is
the generation that is nostalgic about its rebellious drug abuse
as young adults, but thinks it can stop 14-year olds from smoking
cigarettes.)
I've just now finished reading Chapter 32 of The Drake Raft Field Trip. Coincidentally,
just before that, I read an editorial in REASON magazine that
made reference to a 1959 essay written by British novelist and
physicist C.P. Snow, who 'posited that the humanities and sciences
were moving away from each other and that humanists would soon
be utterly ignorant of the science that shapes our world'. It
appears from Chapter 32 that certain humanists have already decided
that scientists incapable of grasping the humanities. The opinions
of your "bald man with glasses" are dismissed because he is a
'scientist' - as if a gap exists that cannot be bridged.
Part of what we may percieve as 'problems' with
so much of our media and government these days stems from the
fact that so many editorialists and elected representatives have
not paid the price in learning from the classical writings of
the past. It is a shame that most of us can get through 16 years or more
of college/university education and still be ignorant of the
writings of the great classical authors.
In the meantime, I'll continue to follow your voyage.
Good thought!!! There are several of us here at this university that
would also like to become pirates. The jolly rogers are already being
mended!!!! Our university, luckily, does not have as many liberal
minded academia's, and teach the way things should be taught... :)
Your's in Barbary spirit..... :)
Chris Pyle
your page looks like a great resource for this tired old teacher of High
School Critical Thinking class. Expect to get raided regularly.
Joe
Is it a crime against the cultural elite for living against stereotyped
pretenses? If I'm a white male, am I expected to be angry? If I'm a
conservative, should I also be a white-separatist or anarchist?
I can unequivocably state that I enyoy your web site!
A slacking, X-gene slacker,
Tony Moreno
Wow!
Just stumbled across your page. It's about time someone has balls enough
to eschew the nonsense spewed by liberal feminsts and their ilk.
Your page and its links are good reading.
Thanks,
It's about time. I was worried for a while. I nearly went mad this evening
during my English Lit class. The instructor, a certain something Serrano
tends to preach feminism. Read the first 63 pages of Literature: Reading,
Reacting, Writing, by Kirszner & Mandell, Second Edition. ISBN:
0-15-500496-4. You must know how hard it is to read this diatribe. Nearly
every analysis of every story by the authors of this book has the word
"feminist", "feminism" in it. This was only our second class meeting, but I
think I've figured it out and I'm ready to fight. I'll let you know how I do.
Sincerely,
John Kessler
I am impressed with your manifesto. Well written and clear.
I look forward to a long lasting relationship on this vessel of verity.
please download any good stuff to:
Czak@ix.netcom.com
Cheers,
Jessie (SatinDoll)
Thanks for the note. I cannot respond to all my mail due to the large
volume. Be assured, however, that I got your message. Thank you again for
taking the time to write.
My Best,
Rush Limbaugh
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Regards,
Worth Colliton
Hail, Shipmate!
Your latest issue of the Jolly Roger was a hoot! I feel I've found a
kindred spirit.
Fortunately I was spared the agonies of overexposure to liberalism's
pernicious poison at my alma mater (Berry College in Rome, GA), but I've
since had opportunity to learn much about the damage being done to the souls
of students all across the nation. Thank God for Beaconway Press, The
Jolly Roger, and yourselves.
I'm a chemist at the Centers for Disease Control here in Atlanta. I'm also
a lover of the Great Books. Several years ago I made a personal commitment
to go back and read all those books that I was supposed to have read in high
school and college but never did. Since then I've made good progress. Here
are some of the literary seas I've sailed, and some of my favorites:
---A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
You will note that my reading list leans heavily toward tales of romance,
adventure, and mystery. I believe these are the books that elevate the
soul, nourish the spirit, hone the intellect, and point us to the Author of
All Truth. Give me Paul's letter to the Romans, or two paragraphs from
Rider Haggard, over a whole galleon of contemporary nihilistic tripe the
likes of which is overburdening the shelves of virtually every American
bookstore.
I intend to balance out my reading list with more works of a political and
philosophical nature, particularly Augustine, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas
Aquinas, Adam Smith, and de Tocqueville. However, I read primarily for
enjoyment as well as edification, and I have found that, far from being dry
or dull or irrelevant, the Great Books are exciting and enthralling. The
Great Books are the ones that deal with the great themes: the importance of
faith; the need for justice; the battle between good and evil in the human
soul as well as in the world at large (Moby Dick!); the reality of
transcendent Truth; true love and chivalry; patriotism...you get the idea.
Keep a firm hand on the rudder, mate! And when you spy that
barnacle-crusted swillbucket of a lopsided galleon they call "Liberalism,"
blast her broadsides with the Western Canon, come alongside and board her
with pistols in both hands and a dagger between your teeth, and put a ball
right between the eyes of the first scurvy dog deconstructionist you see!
Billy Bones
Very good publication, Elliot. Keep up the good work.
Randy R. Allan
To the Three Pirates:
Well, I've just read my first (issue?) of ***The Jolly Roger*** and I am
very impressed. Obviously, Elliot (Ahab) McGucken is highly intelligent
and articulate (and he has a magnificent vocabulary!); I don't know about
the rest of you guys. I guess I'll have to wait and see. ;)
So far, the whole Jolly Roger deal seems all right. Perhaps it is what I'm
looking for as a respite from the morbid works found in most other literary
publications (both on-line and off). I can relate to "Ahab's" experience
in college. No, I didn't attend Princeton and my teacher wasn't Joyce
Carol Oates, but I remember thinking, while sitting in my Introduction to
Poetry class ... What are we supposed to be learning in here? And as a
member of the school's literary arts magazine staff, I was witness to a lot
of "openness" nonsense. Poor me, I was only 16 at the time and seeking a
creative mentor. Needless to say, I didn't find one. Needless to say, I
never learned much about rhyme and meter. I've tried to read books on
pentameters and all that stuff, but the authors were always on the level of
a college graduate (any suggestions for "beginners in rhyme" such as
myself?")
Now that I am at the age of almost-19, I'm preparing to go back to college
and I'm hoping I find some REAL, down-to-earth people who love literature
and poetry and still believe in such things as happiness, love, flowers,
children (who aren't dying or killing someone else), families (that aren't
headed by neurotic mothers or abusive fathers), and other mundane things.
I understand that conflict is the stuff stories are made of, but the
stories and poetry of my classmates were just outrageous. So much
drug-induced tragedy and trying to find oneself ... I got the impression
that it was all phoniness whipped up and printed in black ink. Especially
since the kids writing it were middle-class suburban kids who didn't have
any REAL problems. Maybe I'm an oddball, but my life doesn't suck, and
when it does hit low points I try to keep a decent perspective about it.
Still, I'm not sure how well I will fit in here. I am not male, white,
Christian, a Rush fan, or anti-multi-culturalism. I think there is room in
life for more than one kind of literature from more than one kind of
people. At least, there is room in my life. I'm also not sure if the
Western Canon is the best Canon since I have not had the opportunity to
experience firings from any other (hindered by the fact that I can only
read English). But I don't intend to try and change anything I find here.
I may have to be content with reading The Jolly Roger and the less
structured things to keep me in the balance. We'll see.
Yours truly,
Thanks for some truly old-fashioned reasoning! Of the feminists I can
only say they continue to affirm that the phrase "feminist logic" is the
greatest oxymoron ever uttered by human tongue. Keep writing! I'll read
everything you write and love it! cheese@oregoncoast.com
Elliot & Co.
Kudos for your efforts with "The Jolly Roger". I blundered across it
while Web surfing today.
I too am a refugee from University liberalism, though I faced those rough
seas a few years ago. I am an '84 graduate of Haverford College (B.S.
Physics)
and '84 University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E.E.)
I went to Haverford because I sought a classical "liberal arts" education. I
left largely without one. Haverford is a true bastion of liberalism, with
its
roots in the Quaker faith (which has, as best as I can tell, deteriorated
into
a kind of social positivism). I did know and expect that Haverford would
test
my conservative beliefs, either breaking them or refining them.
At that time, Haverford still had a very strong Western Civilization course
(which I took), and I was privileged to take a special course on the Age of
Enlightenment which was offered by [French department]Prof. (Emeritus) Marcel
Gutworth. I also had one worthwhile Philosophy course, basically a
freedom-and-libertarian perspective, which was taught by a visiting Ph.D. (he
was not, to the best of my knowledge, offered a teaching position at
semester's
end). Between those I eked out bits of the Great Books, but it was not
really
the education I longed for. I mostly faced the liberal academe by
withdrawing
into the "hard" sciences - mainly chemistry and physics, and finally
engineering. I avoided English and Philosophy, which I would have liked if
anything much classical had been offered. Religion, of course, was offered
mostly from an Anthropological/Historical perspective, rather than from one
that would bolster any Christian faith. That said, Haverford still was a
very
challenging place, and I stayed quite busy during my four years there. I did
discover the Intercollegiate Studies Institute during my freshman year,
thanks
to a poker-playing fifth-year senior named Andy Shapiro, who was Haverford's
erstwhile ISI Campus Rep. I took over the Campus Rep. mantle from Andy when
he
graduated; never did much with it (much to my shame) except put up a few
posters on campus, and read lots of good books which I obtained through them.
I need say nothing about U.Penn - the situation there appears to have
worsened
since my day. Since I was pursuing an engineering degree there, and had met
most of their liberal arts requirements at Haverford, I was thankfully free
to
mostly avoid anything outside the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Best wishes hoisting the flag of Truth, Reason, and Faith above the troubled
seas of the modern academe. Consider me a shipmate.
Stan
--
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Bruno Behrend
I found you surfing around. pleased to see what you're up to
Hey! why isn't CATO institute on your metro map!!! Did you forget them, or
are they behind the times and not on the net yet???
either way, you do nice work!
Bruno
Arrrrr, me hearties! Finally, somebody with balls and brains
enough to speak out!
Thanks. Enjoyed your page immensely and will visit often. And
don't let those anti-intellectuals get you down.
Garth
......had some relatively free time (well actually paying a hell of a lot
of money for my time here at good ole Duke U) so I read through a bunch
of your web site. Actually, I didn't read through it - I savored it,
relished in it, absorbed it like the dry desert sand. I grew up in the
shadow of the Great Books, I live a block from the house where Moby Dick
was written...Kipling, Tolkien and Chaucer were playmates. I had this
silly idea that when I went to school (high, college, grad - whatever) I
would continue this track. That the University would help me follow the
footsteps of those Greats who had travelled before me and left a
brilliant legacy that I could not hope to glimpse all of in my lifetime.
Instead I have president Keohane barking dowm my throat that I am
anti-intellectual because I don't spend every waking moment with my eyes
bonded to my Orgo book. She sees us "just sitting around", lounging on
the quad or in the gardens. What the hell was Thoreau doing at Walden?
THE phrase "stop and think" is not one many people use in the right
context. I don't have time to stop and think while I am taking an
Genetics exam. I am too busy regurgitating formulas and facts within that
precious 60 minute time period. I thank the divine that somebody else
agrees with me that thinking is not a lost art. I look forward to my next
visit to the new bastion of knowledge and to your next visit to the Gothic
Wonderland.
Sarah 'The Mic' Flaherty
PS Where can I get my hands on a hard copy of Drake's sonnets (the web
site is fanatastic - but it is a little difficult to carry around with
me) .
Greetings from
a fellow conservative tired of being bludgeoned by the liberal
"intellectuals" in higher education. After becoming weary of the
Derridians, et al., I left the MA in English program at the University
of Kentucky to pursue a Masters in Library Science.
I'm very glad to have stumbled aboard the Jolly Roger and look forward
to getting to know it and its crew better. I also plan to force my
husband, a technophobe and former Russell Kirk intern, to become
familiar with your site.
Happy Sailing!
Mary Ann (Flannery) Abner
macarr02@ukcc.uky.edu
P.S. Due to system malfunctions, I may be registered more than once.
i own an unbound original galley proof of "the drake raft field trip". i love
it. it can be a little self indulgent at times but its real ludicrousness and
pace keep it cool. your video sounds like a real undertaking. good luck, let
me know how you're doing with it. jill jls0667@email.unc.edu
(She's
referring to our video entitled "Selling Sonnets," which we're filming at
Duke University.
Congratulations on being first to ride the next significant cultural
wave. You are not alone. Business is not as usual.
I too have been graced with a gift of rare intellect that is forged
through suffering wrought by the irrationality of others and through
the adventurous and courageous pursuit of the truth in all things. I
have been writing a manuscript for the past ten years which I intend to
come to fruition in the next year.
I would like to participate in building the network that we all know
has the potential to exist. When I self-publish my book (I only
anticipate this because I intend to start my own company, not because I
don't want to submit it to anyone else) I intend to drive around the
country on my own, selling this book door-to-door and in the process,
writing another.
Please keep in touch. I think my book will be newsworthy to your
visitors, perhaps to you. I am no amateur. And yet I do fall in that
age range they so blandly and inappropriately describe as "Generation
X."
It just shows how little they actually DO know about us...
--Name Witheld
Ahoy there! Hey! We're glad to have you aboard! Have you signed
aboard The Jolly Roger? We hope so-- she's shipping out on Thursday
or Friday. Look for the skull and bones! All the best --Elliot
On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Samuel Anderson wrote:
My new and dear shipmates:
I regret to say that the words of my employment could not be arranged in
such a way as to describe the feeling that I am taken by now. What a
suprise! I have just begun using the internet, and never did I expect to
find such a group of men, such a group of heroes!
For the past year or so (yes, it is just then since I have discovered the
classics and felt my thirst for real knowledge!), I have been engaged in
a sort of solitary search. I have manned my little rowboat and set off
to sea in search of men, in search of all that is powerful and true. As
you well know, this ocean is vast; these men are few and difficult to
find (I had some Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, and Ayn Rand to serve as
company and guides). Many-an-island I have passed, my boat riddled by a
hail of insults, meaningless aphorisms, and spears from the hands of
savages. I have studied, on this journey, grammar, vocabulary (these I
have studied on my own, my friends, just as I have done all of my
meaningful learning on my own, away from teachers catering to the whining
idiots sleeping in the back of the classroom), and all the classic works
of literature I could lay my hands on.
My journey grew long, much longer than I had forseen, and my boat began
falling to pieces. My rations grew thin; my clothes were rotting
away. Finally, I lapsed into a state of reverie: I could not think, I
had lost hope, I had lost contact with anything real. Instead of living
alongside the classics, I was lost in the classics.
Then, as I was floating aimlessly, clutching a piece of flotsam,
enveloped in mist, I saw it!
A ship stood gleaming on the waters, its huge mass rising and falling on
the undulations of the sea. Waving high in the air, attached to the
mast, was the flag of reason, the banner of real writing, of real life!
Oh, my friends, what an experience! A resurrection!
I am eager to join the crew of this ship, my friends, and if you allow
me, I will gladly swab the deck until the day when I am able to man the
canon!
Thank you, my friends, and, if you are real, please write back soon.
Samuel Anderson
To the Captain of the Jolly Roger:
I have read with interest the first two chapters of The Drake Raft Field Trip and it has kindled my curiosity. I would like to request information on purchasing a manuscript of the book, if you have not yet found a pub
lisher. I can't promise to pay any price, as I am a philosophy grad-student, and we don't get as much funding as you. We don't make the bombs of defense.
Joshua P. Hochschild
Nice home page.
Would you mind adding our group to your link page?
We are the largest conservative think tank in California. We will soon be
adding a 3 gig. database of affirmative action material to our page.
Thanks,
Tom Lowe
Director of Communications
The Claremont Institute
http://www.cal-net.com/claremont
Elliot,
Thanks for the reference to your article (and poetry). I enjoyed it very
much - especially the poignant commentary on the current wave of physics
coffee table books. I did not know that Davies had won the Templeton prize
- personally I'm apalled. I plan to direct several friends from graduate
school days to your site - I know they will enjoy it as well.
Jim McWhirter
Ahoy,
I just wanted to drop you a note and commend you on the vision you
have. I am at Cal State Fullerton right now and know exactly what you are
talking about. I am a computer science major so I haven't taken a lot of
literature classes but I understand what you are talking about. Keep
going.
Josh "Irish Eye" Lucas
Elliot and the crew:
Where can I get your literature in full? I love REAL writing, and I
really enjoyed chapter one of The Drake Raft Field Trip--- now I need the rest.
I'm not joking, so don't laugh at me (because you like to laugh at
people) and just tell me how I can get the remainder of your literature.
Soon!
Samuel Anderson
The only way to accurately describe the way I feel upon
reading this web
site is to bring to mind a man clinging desperately to a tiny
styrofoam
surfboard as the 20-foot swells lift and plunge him, each wave a
flirtation with disaster (to quote Molly Hatchet). Just as
he's thinking
he can't hold on any longer, he sees a tall ship just a few
hundred
yards away. He is rescued, and given good food and drink
(probably wine
and venison, if we want to keep the proper tone going here).
As he falls
asleep the old sea chanty "Me Wet Feet Are A-Peelin'."
Anyway, congratulations on your superb venture. I have long
held many of
the same feelings/values about
literature/art/politics/everything else
as you (all) express here, and, as someone working seriously
on his
first novel, I, too, share your predisposition for actually
WRITING
rather than simply TALKING ABOUT WRITING.
I wish you much success, and you should know that, when I talk about the
web and its potential, I often mention your site as an example of people
"publishing" whatever the hell they want to say without any
affiliation
to the big wig companies out there.
Keep up the good work.
Bill O'Connor
Dear shipmates,
Ye Old Ship On Time's Ocean
Aye, tis a pretty ship we sail
Whilst the whole world at the lee
Yet we pierce the future with our bow sprite
Knowing their faith be very weak
Best Regards,
Charles Cagle
I have found the work of The Jolly Rogers most interesting. I really want to contribute litterary ideas to the cause. I think I am losing my mind and that my brain is going to waste in college.
I find your page very interesting and a good example of what people
ignore about Generation X. I have only one suggestion about the site
itself. The long, unbroken blocks of text on the home page, the intro
letter from Drake, should either be moved to a separate page or broken up
in some way. It discourages people from reaching the bottom of the page
and viewing everything.
Ayoy, me mateys, where have you been all my life? HAIL Shakespeare!
Hail Kafka! Hail Dostoyevski (sp)
I print my neo-conservative creative raving on za.flame - check it out
and tell me if there's anything you want to use.
Cheers,
Grantland aka IMPU
I just came across your web site and thought I would contact you about
freelance work.
I am a freelance proofreader and editor living in Savannah, GA. If you do use
freelancers, I would appreciate someone letting me know to whom I should
direct my resume. If not, thanks anyway for your time!
Non-slacker,
Megan Brown
NutMegGA@aol.com
Dear Elliot:
The JOLLY ROGER dedicated to Western Science promises to be an inspiring
read and a source for inspirational snippets for the NAS Science News List.
Thanks to you and your fellow Captains for so eloquently stoking the beacon
of the Western intellectual tradition so that it may continue to shine
brightly and cast its enemies into shadow.
Best Regards from Einstein's American Home--Princeton,
Rita Zurcher
X-Personal_name: Michael Davidson
From: afn31716.freenet.ufl.edu
Subject: The Gist
I have found the work of The Jolly Rogers most interesting. I really want to
contribute litterary ideas to the cause. I think I am losing my mind and that my
brain is going to waste in college.
Ahoy Ahab!
Fantastic letter to Princeton's $hapiro! Having spent some time at Brown as
one of their newest 'minds of mush' (little do they know), I have many of the
same impressions that you have toward Princeton. Picture, an entire campus of
drab-ly clad (to show how much life sucks when you're a rich 19-year-old)
mush-heads mumbling about how words don't mean things! Sound familiar? I hope
to stay just long enough to be inoculated, then get my Ph.D. (engineering) and
go away, far far away, from Ivy League academia. Wish me luck.
I'm writing a book. Actually, I have an outline, several pages of thoughts and
paragraphs, and a big fire in my belly. This work portends to be the
right-of-center answer to "Revolution X". I'm thinking of calling it"
"Picking Up the Pieces of the Baby Boom: How we can avoid the coming
generational war with our parents"
Any thoughts? Any thoughts among the brave and valiant crew of the JR?
Happy sailing! Jon
www.zonpower.com/cyberule/part2.html
Look up the above address some wild, wacky stuff about new ideas, peer
review, and the nature of reality.
I also reccomend a little book called "cognative economy" by a William Rescher.
I am, and always shall be, your reader
Bruno
From: Jessica Garver
hello, my name is jessica garver and i'd like to submit some of my work
for your mag but have a few questions pertaining to poetry guidelines.
any info you could send would be appreciated.
thank you
By Kirby Urner
For those of you who have been off-campus for awhile, like since
before Rush Limbaugh and postmodernism became names for opposite
poles, check out this conservative flagship Jolly Roger website
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/jollyroger.html).
And to think I thought my letters to President Bowen were bold! Here
our post-postmodernist, neo-conservative Ahab, flying a Rush-head with
crossed bones, goes semi-berserk over some 'feminazi' using her
Princeton professorship to legitimize what the patriarchs have forever
branded as "illegitimate": having kids out of wedlock. "And what has
this to do with literature?" our outraged Rushmael asks the current
prez of Princeton? As if the etymology of 'bastard' were not a matter
of some literary substance.
Like, how're kids gonna understand the plots of Victorian novels if
they don't get what 'wedlock' was all about? And if you've read the
literature for a living, maybe you've gotten tired of the old plot
lines and want to author some newfangled of science fiction wherein
moms with kids without dads aren't spat upon in accordance the highest
ideals of Judeo-Christianity. Sounds pregnant with literary
possibilities to me.
But I digress. The main thrust of the attack by these pirates are the
Consciounsness Freaks with their coffee-table physics and new agey
mantras, half spirituality and half quantum mechanics. The new
conservatives want to dehybridize religio-physics in a hurry,
splitting them asunder, hard cold Truth on the one hand, funny
emotional stuff on the other. We've done it this way in the past, why
not again in the future? They aim to rescue a live, vibrant physics
from its cold, dead fusion with feel-good fluff. Both science and soul
are debased by their uneasy (or too easy) comingling. Morals and muons
must be pried apart, so that science can get on with engineering a
better laser printer, and moralists can get back to thumping Bibles
instead of physics books. Gimme that old time religion and cut this
tao of physics crap!
Somehow, on the charts of these pirates, coffee-table metaphysics has
become synonymous with liberalism and the dilution of Truth by a lot
of self-canceling, amoral, nihilistic, creeping cross-culturalism.
Back when I went to Princeton, Liberal Arts meant studying a broad
range of subjects so as to deepen ones appreciation of the planetary
panolply -- much as these liberally (and expensively) educated
conservatives advocate doing today. Liberalism also idealized an
ability to consider matters from a variety of viewpoints -- so-called
open-mindedness -- an ideal much ridiculed by the ditto-heads of
today. But it never meant refraining from judgements. Intellectual
freedom means the freedom embrace some ideas even while discriminating
against others, and having the liberal education needed to pick one's
affiliations intelligently. At the practical level, this can also mean
knowing when to change channels.
But 'liberalism' is but another context-controlled charged particle,
as spinnable as all the rest, at the mercy of young, impressionable,
channel-surfing, Rush-viewing minds. Its meaning has deconstructed to
whatever embodies 'the enemy' for these post-postmodernist Ahabs.
Socrates, Einstein and Rush Limbaugh line up with the pirate
good-guys, while feminazis, Frank Tippler and President Shapiro line
up on with the liberal baddies. This was not an opposing team lineup I
ever anticipated. But I chalk that up to the hard cold fact of real
live gaps between generations. Each new youthful crew inherits a box
of puppets and stages whatever hero-villain shows express the sense of
the day. Oldsters may not understand what galvanizes the young, but
hey, if it attracts an audience and moves product, what's to
understand?
All that being said, the poetry is good, the wit sharp, and the
critiques funny. I have a hard time finding my feet in this fun-house
of distorting mirrors, so unrecognizably unlike the reality of my own
freshman orientation (I liked Nietzsche too, but would never have
imagined casting Rush as Zarathustra). So who needs a road map to
enjoy the scenery? This may not be Kansas, Toto, nor even Oz, but it
is a site of fiesty, intelligent ferment focused around my alma mater,
so, like, I can relate.
I'll be back.
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I believe I'm officially subscribed to The Jolly Roger now, and I look
forward to getting the next issue. I do prefer the Great Books to most
of what passes for literature today. However, I do think it's a mistake
to rank Rush Limbaugh as a peer of Donne and T.S. Eliot. I hope you won't
make me walk the plank because I'm a Democrat. I decry political
correctness myself, and some other liberal agendas, but I don't think all
liberals, or all liberalism, is bad. I enjoy reading National Review as
well as The New Republic, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The New American
(God forbid!). Although I've never read anything by Toni Morrison, I
was surprised that she won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It seemed to
be a political move. Anyway, if you would like to respond, please do.
Thank you for your time. Sincerely,
i was drifting, shipwrecked, and what to my wondering eyes did
appear? uh....dunno yet but looks interesting.
How did i get here?? i am an mfa in creative writing (poetry, no
less) and egads mon! where did you guys come from?
Is it my waterlogged sight or did that wetsuit say "rare"?
hmmmmn
yeah, me
I would just like to say this is the best page I have found on the net
as of yet. I would also like to say "the people who have the information
have the control"
ps What's good is gone
What's left is ours
Thanks Generation X
Great work, and keep up the effort ---
Where do I get a T-shirt?
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I have just been reading some of the links in the Jolly Roger.
I am amazed to find Generation Xers that read great literature,
and are not left wing morons. I am a boomer; with a number of
degrees. I read and memorized the Constitution of the United
States and the Declaration of Independence. I have read all of
Shakespeare, and delight in great literature. I am also very
conservative, and enjoy 'Rush'; therefore, I find this area
surprising.
Shiva-
Ahoy, Ahab!
Many thanks for the recent e-mail. Things at the Stanford
Harbor (aka The Stanford Gulag) are most definitely not on
an even keel. That scalawag of a university president we
have here has come out in full support of affirmative action.
Pity, I had higher hopes for the man. But I take courage and
refuge in the Great Books. Your encouragement to read them
and to extol their virtues has inspired me greatly of late.
In fact, for the first time, I am reading MOBY DICK.
Moreover, I have bought a copy of Einstein's RELATIVITY and
a copy of his IDEAS & OPINIONS. I look forward to learning
from both these great men. Once again, thanks for the
encouragement. Let's continue to sail the seven cyberseas
in search of liberal booty!
Yours,
James "Captain Redbeard" Harris
I really like your page on internet. I am new to internet because my
company just got internet.
In one part you say you can teach people how to like the Great Books. I
will like to learn how to like the Great Books, and I plan on buying some
to have in my house.
I like Rush, too, and I think the poems you write are very good. I never
liked poems that didn't rhyme.
Please let me know how I can learn more about the Great Books and how to
like them.
Mike Fallon,
When I was a senior in high school, I asked to take Creative Writing.
I was given Composition instead.
The composition instructor laid on us a short story called "A Dawn
You'll Never See," by Joyce C. Oates. The story was, um... pointless.
Since then, I have had a Creative Writing instructor who limited his job
to teaching the nuts and bolts of expressing oneself. Even though he
was liberal, he didn't let it influence his teaching.
Your other letters point out occasionally that the humanities have
become the inhumanities because the better men have abandoned them. I'm
convinced that terminating public education is the only lasting solution
to the tenured demogogues known as the Politically Correct. Then we can
all get back to reading Sherlock Holmes and studying Maxwell's Equations.
I have a bone to pick with you. Don Quixote and Les Miserables are missing
from your list of great books--at least the lists I could see. What gives?
Hacman sends...
From: James <***********@leland.stanford.edu>
Ahoy, Ahab! Many thanks for the recent e-mail. Things at
the Stanford Harbor (aka The Stanford Gulag) are most definitely
not on an even keel. That scalawag of a university president we
have here has come out in full support of affirmative action.
Pity, I had higher hopes for the man.
But I take courage and refuge in the Great Books. Your
encouragement to read them and to extol their virtues has
inspired me greatly of late. In fact, for the first time, I am
reading MOBY DICK. Moreover, I have bought a copy of Einstein's
RELATIVITY and a copy of his IDEAS & OPINIONS. I look forward
to learning from both these great men. Once again, thanks for
the encouragement. Let's continue to sail the seven cyberseas
in search of liberal booty!
Yours,
James "Captain Redbeard" Harris
The Stanford Harbor
I really like your page on internet. I am new to internet
because my company just got internet.
In one part you say you can teach people how to like the Great
Books. I will like to learn how to like the Great Books, and I
plan on buying some to have in my house.
I like Rush, too, and I think the poems you write are very good.
I never liked poems that didn't rhyme. Please let me know how I
can learn more about the Great Books and how to like them.
Mike, Denver, CO
Um, Ahoy, maties (I'm not quite up with the sea lingo yet)
Let me just say that I read my first Jolly Roger (heard of you
on the Repub-L discussion list) and I'm looking forward to more.
I have been wandering the hallowed walkways of Duke University
for about three months, now, and I'm having a wonderful time,
but I'm missing the Great Books. Anyway, I'll be hearing from
you all regularly now, and maybe I'll post a little of my own
verse for everyone's enjoyment/criticism/entertainment/whatever.
Clear skies, strong winds, and following seas!
DEAR JOLLY ROGER -- Fantastic! Stupendous! Thank God there is a voice
of sanity in this cultural wilderness! Dittoes, Jolly Roger,
megadittoes! Good luck, keep up the good fight! We are
reclaiming the Soul of America!
Your brother in arms,
Hey, I really enjoyed your poetry....Hope I had permission to
download it. Like to hear more about your campaign for
conservative poetry. --Bill Juntunen
Finding your website was a breath of fresh air! I did register,
but I'm so excited about becoming involved with such a group of
people that I had to go ahead and e-mail you!
I loved your interest in the TRUTH! I am very disturbed by the
modern crisis of rewriting dictionaries--particularly in
redefining the word "truth." Also, I hope your references to
the truth are indicative of a belief in absolute truth.
Relativity makes me sea- sick! I won't keep you longer because
I hope you'll return my mail very soon. I look forward to
hearing from you. --Ky Sinclair
I have already signed up aboard the 'roger' and love what it
stands for...I have several things I would like to submit...
Is there anything specail that things people submit should
pertain to? thanks
ERIC
P.S. Quote of the Day-"A ship is safe when in a harbor but
sitting in a harbor is not what ships are made for..." -unknown
Hello there my older and much wiser friend from D.C.!
I was just cruisin' the web a moment ago when I remembered you, my first
WWW exposure from the summer. :) What's going on with you? Have you seen
Elizabeth since the summer? How are the Pumperknickles? or the Mousetrappers?
or the Humpbacks?
I am loving Northwestern, all though it's extraordinarily freezing! How are
all your projects coming? Your Web. page is great! I feel so priviledged
having an actual autographed copy of your book. :)
Send me a note when you get a chance, I would love to reconnect.
Stefanie
-part 3 of the 3am discusion club
Hi,
It is good to see that there is still
room for conservativism in academe.
Open forums and discussions are
necessary for any intellectual culture
to exist. "Political correctness" went
way to far.
Sincerly,
From: Sarah Cahill
Hey! I totally loved Bootsy's story, "NANTUCKET GHOSTS"! Kepp 'em comin'! -- Sarah
Great job on your last issue. I enjoy getting mail from you guys. How
do I get a T-shirt?
Where have you guy's been? As a graduate of the esteemed UNC System (Western
Carolina) I have longed to find some glimmer of hope in the bastion of
liberalism known as Chapel Hill! Words cannot describe how heartbroken I was
to hear of the recent slips to the left made by members of that area that I
have admired for so long.
Your task is great, my friends! I have seem first hand the dregs of debris
that frequent these campuses today! But, keep your head up! You are not
alone, as I have discovered more of us out in the real world that is
reported. My boss & I take great pride in listening to Rush Limbaugh every
day & subscribing to great arenas of thought such as yours! We, too are
outnumbered here in High Point, but we keep pushing forth, as should you, in
our quest to get the truth out!
Keep up the good work & I look forward to hearing more from you!
Sincerely,
Jon (Little Jon) Jones
As a side note that we are winning:
Our corporate office is located in Los Angeles, and quite a few of the
left-coast employees are staunch conservatives!
Elliot:
I really enjoyed your story (A NANUTCKET GHOST STORY) in The Jolly Roger - I want to forward it to
my brother who is a freshman at UMT and may have to read some of that
awful literature they teach there.
I have not been doing any work on The Revolutionary for the past two
months - I have tried to decide what to do for it (I thought the facts n
stuff was getting kinda goofy, so I had to decide what I wanted to do).
Like Clinton, I decided to "redefine myself" ;-). Your Declaration will
appear in the November edition.
Out of that "redefinition," here is an idea I came up with.
I hope to run commentaries called "Revolutionists," which will be a
supplement to The Revolutionary. These will be irregular commentaries by
people who participate on the Internet - i.e., they can participate when
they want. All they have to do is write a commentary, and I will advance
it on my NEW listproc to all the subscribers. Yes, The Revolutionary
will still appear once a month, but hopefully I can narrow things down a bit.
Would you like to take part in this? I would like to know so that I can
get names of people to list in my next edition.
The November issue should appear in a couple of days - I just need to get
the newsletter compiled.
Regards,
Hi there,
after travelling around the WWW I came upon you site, it's quite
interesting so I decided to add it to my site. I wrote a link in my hot
links directory: choose HOTLINKS and LITERATURE.
I have a site with a lot of information about italy, italian companies,
hotels and events I would be very grateful if you could possibly link
back to me in your directory.
my URL is:
http://www.tradenet.it
Visiting Italy...check Tradenet!
Thanks in advance for your cooperation
ciao Enrico
To: mcgucken@jollyroger.com
Cap'n Drake Sir!
I got the Halloween messages and they were great! My wife and I
enjoyed them thoroughly.
Ahoy!
I just discovered the Jolly Roger and thought it was great.
Although I'm a mathemetician by trade, I couldn't live without the great
books. I'm in the middle of Bloom's "The Western Canon," and now
I'm going to have to re-read Moby Dick.
So, I salute your endeavor, happy sailing, bon voyage, etc., etc.
Jeff Allen
I feel it is more than a coincidence that I discovered this site
recently. For most of my life, I have been homeschooled. The
great books were my "textbooks" up until high school. I "attended"
high school for three years.
Actually I languished in the suffocating nihilism that chokes the
life out of nearly all modern high schools. I suffered through the
nasty, shallow textbooks that package frivolous, inconsequential
details into tiresome language. Those that did give a larger
picture of events and thoughts are often hopelessly crammed with
watery, weak versions of the rich and powerful ideas of history.
When studying, say, the Reformation, why did we not read at least
some of the ninety-five theses Luther posted on the door of the
cathedral? Instead students must remember to fill in "ninety-five
theses" in answer to the question "This document started the
Reformation" on test 32a. It is as if the modern educational
system was created to play Jeopardy. Answer in the form of a
question, please.
Beyond the actual methods of teaching lie the philosophies that
created the specter of the educational system. This is where the
real problem is. I felt deeply for the suffering souls of my
peers. There was an overpowering sense of hopelessness and
depression buried deep beneath the typical lunchroom
superficiality. There is a bitter and complete sense of
disillusionment that is not of their making but nevertheless hangs
over the them like a black cloud. The things that should stimulate
and excite the minds of today's youth have been taken away from
them. It is not only the fact that the Great Books are not
presented as such and deconstructed, but that the average high
schooler has been desensitized to literature. They have been
blinded by the trash thrown at them and even though most know it is
trash it is hard to see clearly in the light when you have been in
the dark for so long. I knew all this deep down. I saw clearly
the problems that affected us all.
Yet I was condemned to inaction. I was rather immature myself.
All I could do was watch. I could (and should) have done much more
to help that school and my friends, yet I didn't. By my Junior
year I was becoming what I despised. The slough of despond almost
claimed me, but I did have deep foundations in the lasting things
of life, and parents that cared. I was saved. I pulled myself out
of the school and homeschooled my senior year.
It may sound to the uniformed like I was some kind of dork who
didn't "fit in" and couldn't take reality, or whatever. Thats a
lot of crap. I was on the Varsity Football team, class president,
and involved in a couple other things that mean too much to too
many people.
No true human being "fits in" to the mold that the sham
intelligentsia and media moguls create. No human being can be
joyful when truth (which ultimately means life) is devalued.
Throughout the last four years, I have often wondered why those who
seek and stand by the Truth never seem to take an offensive stand
against those who seek to destroy it. Sure, there are those who
fight politically against the politics of meaninglessness. (Sorry,
Hillary)
This is needed and it seems presently a good start is taking place.
"PC" has become a term of derision to many Americans. But this is
not a battle of laws and school boards and regulations.
Ultimately, it is a battle of hearts and minds and souls. And it
will be won not be holding ground, but by taking it. Many complain
about the tripe that passes for literature/music/visual arts today,
but HOW MANY HAVE THE GUTS TO NOT ONLY COMPLAIN, BUT CREATE? How
many seek to create organizations and groups that seek to create
TRUE art and expression of our nature? Not many.
The Jolly Roger seems to be a place where it is possible to fight
back against the dying of the light. (Yes Hollywood, I read that
line before you used it in a movie) To me it is a starting point-a
place for a generation that has been bought and sold like slaves to
fight back. Not by attacking, but creating. And 24 soldiers, heh,
heh-thats all we need to keep Truth alive in our time. I can't
believe the Jolly Roger exists! This is, like, cooler than that
new Friends show, and stuff. When I found this place - I couldn't
sleep for a long while that night. I praise everyone on here
Greatly! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am struck
with AWE. An AWESOME place, and I'm one seventeen year old you can
count on to tell everyone he knows and provide as much support as
he can about and for this place.
A deep thanks from my soul -"PATCH"
Ayes mates, it's been long years that I, a 38 year-old post baby
boomer, pre-X sailor have sailed upon once vast seas of thought
recently much polluted and drained by those scurvy scoundrels who
would spoon-feed intellectual cotton candy into the minds of our
nation. I have oft gone alone to lay waste to the bastions of
liberal fuzziness and have been rebuffed in my quest by the sheer
mass of the sticky spun-sugar of lies moistened by the false tears
of compassion of those within the gates of academia. It was a
lonely quest, yet a fine one. Those such as I, who have labored
amidst the background of ridicule in the days when political
correctness was a term of derision to only a small faithful band,
may perhaps lay claim to have laid the foundation so that ones such
as you, our progeny, could build a magnificent vessel like the
Jolly Roger. I salute your effort and it is with great pleasure I
accept the honor of serving aboard that fine ship. Let's give
opportunity for the
liberal-feminist-currently-in-recovery-deconstructionist-
multicultural-mushbrains to learn what the words "victim" and
"rage" really mean. Man the yardarms! Set the sails! It's payback
time. The only problem with the dead white men is that we haven't
studied them enough!
--Death to fuzzy thinking
From: Stewart
Hi Elliott, We are keeping your Feature Link on The BIG EYE and you
will be delighted to hear that Newsweek magazine has featured The
BIG EYE in the Nov 20th issue as the WWW Search Tool on their
Cyberscope pages (p.16). This should introduce a great many
persons to The Jolly Roger and I'm delighted to be able to do this.
You may use this information in any fashion you feel may be of
benefit.
Best wishes, Stewart
Thus far, the Jolly Roger sounds like the most interesting and intelligent
place I have visited on the Net, and places with those qualities are
difficult to find on or off the Net.
I have just been reading some of the links in the Jolly Roger.
I am amazed to find Generation Xers that read great literature,
and are not left wing morons. I am a boomer; with a number of
degrees. I read and memorized the Constitution of the United
States and the Declaration of Independence. I have read all of
Shakespeare, and delight in great literature. I am also very
conservative, and enjoy 'Rush'; therefore, I find this area
surprising.
Shiva-
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MY PAL WAS JUST DOWNLOADED A DOCUMENT ON TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
WHICH HE FOUND QUITE HARD TO DIGEST. YOU SEE WE AT THE ROBERT GORDON
UNIVERSITY IN ABERDEEN SCOTLAND, DO NOT HAVE A VOCABULARY THAT
STRETCHES MUCH BEYOND THAT OF BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD THATS WHY WE
WORSHIP THE GROUND THEIR BUTTS DRAG ALONG.
I THOUGHT THERE WERE SOME PRETTY GOOD PIECES OF INFORMATION IN YOUR
PIECE, BUT I WANT TO KNOW FOR REAL, WAS IT WRITTEN WITH A THESAURAS
AT HAND OR ARE ALL YOU GUYS OVER THERE BORN WITH A DICTIONARY IN YOUR
MOUTH?
WELL HAVE TO GO
BEER GUT
PS I AGREE TRANSMITTING DATA ALONG THE ELECTRON FILLED MAIL BOX AND
WEB IS ONE HELL OF CONCEPT
Quite an energetic introduction, my first email from you. I am left
assuming, from the frequent references to learning institutions and MTV,
that that you mates are students. And since the name Rush is usually either
accompanied with sneers or cheers, I take it you are truly conservatives at
heart.
I confess that I am merely a mild-mannered thirty-something, who dropped
out of college only half-way through, having been something of an
intellectual dilletant, obsessed with foreign languages. Since then I
haven't time to listen to Rush because I'm so busy earning a living in my
conservative idiom. My wife stays home with the kids, while I work two jobs
and spend whatever free time I have herding boy scouts.
But herein lies the essence of art. It is a popular opinion that great art
is bred by a life of turmoil. I agree that adversity breads inspiration. My
hard lifestyle is my adversity. It makes me look for more than a grindstone
or a paycheck. It spurs me to seek new and exciting horizons of which
classic literature is one of my favorite venues. Like everyone else, I have
written a few dozen essays, ballads, short stories and even the better part
of a novel. These things are personal and valuable only to myself, and I
don't yearn to share them. But I would be interested in reading a little of
what's out there. I would also like to find commentary on Moby Dick and
other classics.
Carry on in well-doing.
-Tom 'Capsayson' Ogden
thou art truly correct, my friends. continue thy fine work knowing that
you have my full support.
arghhhhhhhh mateees!!
I'm so glad to be aboard. I really hope I can benefit this mighty
vessel.I must know are we pirates?
blackbush
Hail Captain of the Jolly Roger,
Where has this ship been? I have been looking for someway to
escape the liberalism that has beset our society. Since when can
someone be taught to be creative? Since when can we be taught to be
ourselves by someone else? The answer is never. One must teach
himself and discover his own inner being along the way.
I am only 16 and have been writing poems for almost 3 years now.
Never do I confine myself to not rhyming or having to rhyme. I just
put down what I feel needs to come out. It is an emotional release,
not a political one. Anyway I would like to contribute to this
wonderful treasure I have discovered on my first trip into the WWW.
Could you please contact me and tell me how I may help you in your
voyage in search of a more practical and free place.
Peg-Leg (Jed Hanes)
When I first blundered onto the Jolly Roger during a long session
of pointless web-surfing, it was like happing upon a lighthouse of truth
in a sea of, well, fill in your own adjective here.
Here was people my age, thinking what I thought, and writing about it.
Taking advantage of technology to make an end-run around the whole
media-publishing axis and its inherent agenda--it was something I had
been considering but somehow never got around too. Needless to say I
point everyone in your direction, good or bad, right or left.
I find the whole idea of the "Boomer" media dictating (via MTV, sitcoms,
the music biz, and all the shit they shovel at us in schools) what
exactly we're supposed to "be" ("angry!"), and their presumption to label
us ("Generation X"!), and then their explanations as to exactly what
we're so angry about (a lack of funding for AIDS research, apparently),
to be so preposterous and condescending, I didn't know whether I should
just laugh it off with a few beers or start tossing web-page bombs of my
own.
Thankfully you've taken care of that for me!
Ahoy!
Well, you've got me hooked. With that theme and that delivery, who could
deny a voyage from your crew?
I'm just getting in on the Web-publishing game. My journal, Young Blood,
is brand new, hosting a growing number of students from the Glendale,
California high school and colleges. I'm looking for good examples for
them, and it seems the Jolly Roger has it: thoughtful, concrete writing
(with a little attitude). Although I have some writers opposite you on
the socio-political spectrum, I think your material is respectable and
should be read by anyone with a brain, no matter what extreme, or
in-between-place, they enjoy.
Dear Jolly Roger,
I'm a junior faculty member (literature) at the Ateneo University (in
Manila), and I received a copy of your e-zine through my friend Monique in
England. There are other writers who offer similar beliefs regarding
literature; I recall Tony Hendra, who, in a July 1995 issue of GQ, wrote
about the "hackademia" ("a requiem for American higher education: with
'post-Marxists' and 'associate professors of TV' running amok on campus,
your kid is better off becoming a mechanic"), and Frederick Turner, who
offers a scientific view of the notion of truth, beauty, and value in the
arts through his book _The Culture of Hope_. Anyway, I'll see if I can find
more sources (Turner offers an interesting bibliography); perhaps you can
comment on some of these for future issues. Thanks! And Merry Christmas!
Hello! :)
I've been to this site before, and enjoy the updates.
Personally, though, I would choose the complete works of Shakespeare
first, then the complete works of Aristotle, then the Analects of
Confucious. (Unlike Mr. Bloom, I have no hard time deciding which
books to take.) The Bible might rank in the top ten on my list, but
surely the complete tales of the Grimm Brothers and Morte le Arthur
would rank higher.
Keep up the good work!
stephen
I just read Moby Dick this last semester, so your metaphor
strikes me as wonderful--the entire book was a masterpiece, but the
last twenty-five pages were unearthly . . .
What else is there to do on the Jolly Roger? Do you accept
essays or papers? I haven't written any poetry for some time, and a
novel that I wrote is 250 pages or so. And, no, it did not get
accepted by the liberal agents.
Are you still affiliated with a college? Which one? Is it
liberal or conservative (I suppose it must be liberal if you were a
Physics major)? I'd love to find a conservative university to attend,
so that I don't have to teach black dialect stories and anthropology
essays.
Thanks again for making the Jolly Roger--you've made me have
at least some faith in this modern age. I am still partial to Plato,
Aeschylus, and Alexander Pope, however. That allegiance can never
alter.
"Only the educated are free." --Epictetus
Ahoy Red Avenger:
I just read "Nantucket Ghost Story" and must say that Bootsy's made me a believer (
http://jollyroger.com/beaconway/bootsy.html ). Of course, I was a believer to begin with...maybe she's
just confirmed what I already knew. There IS such a thing as Truth, for those who are not too timid to
embrace it. When you get Kirk's "Conservative Mind" in stock, I'll order it from you. I'm very
impressed with your book list; all the great books available for ordering on one handy website!
I printed out some of your poems from the web pages and sent them to a young friend of mine who is a
freshman at Berry College in Rome, Georgia (my alma mater). Fortunately, Berry has not been
deluged with the multiculturalist/relativist/postmodern drivel that is spoon-fed to unsuspecting
undergrads at so many other institutions of higher learning, but Melinda needed a dose of Drake Raft
anyway. I'll let you know what she thinks.
Sam (my five-year-old) and I are reading George MacDonald's fairy tales at bedtime, and he loves
them. Say, how about adding some children's literature to BeaconRay Books? You know, sort of a
"Western Canon" for kids? I saw this page on the Web, I think it was called Home Arts, where
several authors (Maurice Sendak and Harold Bloom included) gave their opinions about books they
would include in a Western Canon for Children.
Their suggestions included standard popular works as well as some surprises...Bloom really got my
attention when he suggested tales from Norse mythology, because my wife and I are big on Western
mythology, folk tales, fairy tales, etc. (especially Irish/Celtic stuff). Anyway, think about it.
I've got some ideas for books you could include.
To borrow from the native parlance: You dudes are totally cool.
Curt ("Billy Bones")
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS:
Ahoy Billy Bones! Bootsy will be psyched to hear your praise. We've thought about opening a
children's section-- it's a great idea, and we're thinking that perhaps later this year we'll expand to
include more. Kirk's book is on back order right now, but we should see it soon. Great to have you
aboard-- I remember you were the one who was fond of Romans, and now I am too. Right now our
major project is publishing THE DRAKE RAFT FIELD TRIP later this spring-- we'll talk more
about it in the upcoming JOLLY ROGER. See you aboard the Good Ship! All the best-- The Red
Avenger
Anyone kicked out of anything by J.C. Oates is already a friend of mine, so I may as well introduce
myself. Stephanie Herman (signed on as Navin, twice) -- you may be familiar with my work: I
trashed a bunch of feminist novels (by Gilchrist, Atwood, French & Piercy) for The Women's
Quarterly, the journal of the anti-feminist Independent Women's Forum in D.C. and have written a
few times for Conservative Generation X (CGX) here on the net.
I can't tell you how excited I was to find this whole melange of literary stuff tonight. To be honest, I
hadn't really connected my endeavors in fiction with my non-fiction interest in conservative ideals.
Well, maybe I had, but you've given me a lot more to think about. I'm currently 50,000 words into my
first novel, "Fraternizing of the Hemispheres" in which two baby-boomer teenagers in the '70s are
being set straight by a down-to-earth, somewhat Republican adoptive grandmother. So maybe, like I
said, I have made the connection. Anyway, I've enjoyed Beckett's poetry (and I don't care much for
poetry, so that says something) and later, when I have more time, I plan to read more that's offered
here.
I'm almost tempted to demand that you allow me to work with you because your direction so exactly
parallels mine. My tactics would include the threat of discrimination charges if you didn't let me (I'm a
woman). But, I realize this is your thing. However, if you ever find yourself wanting to expand, please
let me know. I'm great at everything.
Sincerely, Stephanie Herman
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS: Ahoy there Navin! Truth knows no gender, and thus we regularly walk
the streets recruiting Republican Grandmothers to sail aboard the Good Ship! Arghhghghghgh! Toss
your prose in yer carpet-bag, and bring it aboard, me kindred spirit!
I just discovered your site tonight. I'm intrigued, though somewhat puzzled by its several purposes
and divisions. In any case, I assure you that I belong among your disaffected visitors.
I also attend (as a senior) the university which, with justice, draws a considerable amount of your ire.
Education here is always narrow, most often superficial, and dull. My real education occurs on break or
during my procrastinations, during which I spend time with Sterne, Shakespeare, Johnson & Boswell,
Melville, et al. My truest professors and dearest companions all. I read outside of class with the same
passion it is clear your visitors possess. The close of the Phaedo related a tenderness I will not forget;
Don Quixote's spiritual death is one of the most melancholy moments in all of literature.
Hopefully your site will help give new life to the creation of the universal and learned men this world
has recently neglected to produce.
To readers of this site, I suggest the prophetic chapter "The Barbarism of Specialization" in Ortega y
Gasset's Revolt of the Masses.
I look forward to walking the gangway.
Dan Kearney
"Nobody ever learned anything except from what is above them."
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS:
Ahoy! Watch yer step, me matie, and if ye ever go prospecting through the gardens at midnight with
that special someone, be careful that the liberal scurvey dogs don't creep up on ye in the postmodern
fog and slit yer throat! I remember it being thick as pea soup!
Aaarrrrrrrrrr, matey! Tis I, Gary "Captain Blood" Prange of the corsair United Republican Fund, swift
of sail and scourge of the Midwestern left. I thank ye for permission to come aboard. Lads, I hoist a
tankard of sweet rum (or perhaps a single-malt scotch) to ye. Ahab, Bluebeard and Red Avenger! I
have downloaded thy broadsides and the smell of black powder lingers. I say Onward, avengers! and
rake the hulls of the cardboard armada of liberal academia! Aye! Pour it on, lads! I see them now! The
HMS Deconstruction strikes her colors. Cowards! And there....the HMS Multiculturalism. What! tis
no man-of-war. Tis but a garbage scow! She's taking on water but her crew knows it not. And
yonder...the HMS Political Correctness lists port-side. Load the Western Canon, boys! Hurl the Iron
Ball of Truth through her waterline and give the brigands what-for!
And lo....
Thar she be....
The flagship of the Self-Annointed! The HMS Liberal Death Wish! Her captain is Molech and her time
has come. Bring the Jolly Roger 'round and ready the grapple lines. Take cutlass in hand, and with a
rhyme in your heart and steely eye, board the barquentine. Aye, make her crew taste brine and
prepare to scuttle. Send the Great Lie to rest in Davy Jones's locker, hoist the Jolly Roger over the
shallow waters of the Culture of the Crowd and make for the deep waters of Truth and Liberty.
Aaarrrrrrrrrr!!
Courage,
Gary L. Prange
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS:
Argrgrrhgrhrghrgrhgrh! Ye pirated the words right out of me mouth, matie! Good to have ye aboard!
I'm here in the sweet, peaceful valley of Kent to study English and teach freshman composition.
I just read Moby Dick this last semester, so your metaphor strikes me as wonderful--the entire book
was a masterpiece, but the strikes me as wonderful--the entire book was a masterpiece, but the last
twenty-five pages were unearthly . . .
Thanks again for making the Jolly Roger--you've made me have at least some faith in this modern
age. I am still partial to Plato, Aeschylus, and Alexander Pope, however. That allegiance can never
alter.
"Only the educated are free." --Epictetus -- Dark-Eye
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS: Thanks for braving the hostile elements and teaching the Truth at an
academic institution! Ye give us faith in this modern age! May God be with ye!
Ahoy Captain: Commander Freedom here throwing in my two bits wishing you and yours a most
meaningful Christmas, and keep the sails unfurled in '96.
Glad to see that the Jolly Roger crowd is hip to the disastrous effects
of the Shapiro presidencey. As an alum who refuses to give a dime to
Princeton --now PC-U-- because of its current course, I am watching in
bemused wonder the apparent resurrection of a love of excellence under
the least promising of circumstances. Keep up the good work!
I am a college student at a small liberal arts college. Although it is
supposed to be religously founded, I find the status of it is to accept
everything. Subjects ranging from alternative lifestyle to poor learning
skills. It seems to me that college students are getting more ignorant
about the Truth.
Every time I get one of these messages it gives me hope for the
future. I just hope the rest of my apathetic colleagues could learn that
simple emotion. Hope for the future.
Sincerely, Mountain Man
Red Avengers,
The latest installment of The Jolly Roger is your best effort
effort to date. Me maties, it warms Redbeard's heart to see
Russell Kirk quoted in your pages, he being a constant source
of inspiration. Without the late, great Kirk, I would have
missed the necessity of the moral imagination, which lies at
the root of all great literature and the eternal human soul,
for keeping order in that soul and in the commonwealth. It's
a disgusting shame that the bloated Bloom of Yale with his
Marxist deconstructionism gets so much attention from the
darlings of the dominant media, such as Charlie Rose, while Kirk,
along with T.S. Eliot, Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt, all
defenders of the moral imagination, are read and known only by
conservatives such as us. Arrr! At least, for now, at Stanford
University, my home port, one can still find the Great Books and
the works of Kirk in the library, there to be read free of the
diabolical imagination and nay-saying of the bloated Bloom and
his cronies.
Well, me Avengers, keep the powder dry and the Western Canon
primed and ready! We have the yellow, scurvy dogs on the run!
Yours,
James "Captain Redbeard" Harris
Gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to hear from people feel the same way I do about
literature and ideas. As a sophomore at Penn State University with a
double major in Philosophy and English, I find myself at times wanting to
scream at the rampant bullshit so pervasive on my campus. Have you ever
had a teacher tell you: "you think too much"? I have. Have you ever had a
teacher tell that "words are meaningless", "truth is a social construct"
and that "there are no absolutes"? I have. And when you ask that teacher
if *his* words are meaningless, if his statements are true and that the
assertion "there are no absolutes" *is* an abosolute--been looked at as
if you were suddenly speaking pig latin? I have. Unfortunately, I could
go on...but I won't--it's not necessary. If you weren't aware of it, you
wouldn't have launched the Jolly Roger would you?
I hope to get more involved with your movement. I think it's a noble--and
necessary--cause. My goal is to use literature to teach people about
values, meaning, purpose, integrity and creating for oneself a life worth
living. I hope that you gentlemen can aid me in my quest, as I hope to
aid you in yours.
Regards,
Daniel Smith--lover of truth and knowledge
Henceforth
email is welcome
SUBJECT: Good Post!
From: Kelly Mallory
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Ahoy Jolly Roger!!!
to the lonely sea and sky.
And all I ask is a tall ship, and
a star to stear her by.
Regent University
School of Law and Government
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Beaconway Press Publications & Services for Conservative Scholars
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Ahoy Jolly Roger!!!
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Creative Writing
APPLEGAA@ESUvm1.Emporia.Edu
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: poetry for physicists
From: Donald Williams
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: bias in mystery fiction
From: MRS CATHY M JACKSON
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: jollyroger
From: MR HAROLD K FIORINI
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: AHOY!
From: Jason Stuart
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Add me to Listserv
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Your Great Books Page
lnoles@roger.vet.uga.edu
From: "Robert W. Harbour"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: At last!! (again)
From: Mish <100450.2670@compuserve.com>
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: (no subject)
From: Eric Lowell Davis
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Beaconway
From: gillenk@FRB.GOV
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Subject: subscribe Jolly Roger
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From: "D. Newcom"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: (no subject)
From: matt drudge
To: Elliot McGucken
From: Hal Cline
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: your conservative homepage
From: bob@bob.edu
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Subject: (no subject)
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Subject: Beaconway Press
From: kmahon@mailhost.intac.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Very interesting....
From: "Pyle, Chris"
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: C-NEWS: THE CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUALS-- SIGN ABOARD!
Flight Supervisor
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach, FL. 32114
From: TeacherJoe@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: ahoy
From: Tony Moreno
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Pleasantly intrigued
From: Christopher Schweda
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: WOW!
Chris Schweda
schweda@umich.edu
From: Riten@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Whew! I finally arrived. Thought I might drown.
From: "Margaret J. Barczak"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Ahoy maties!
From: Rush Limbaugh <70277.2502@compuserve.com>
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: ***THE JOLLY ROGER***
From: WorthColl@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: letter to President Shapiro, "encapsulating the
profound in an unparalleled manner." I must say, though, that I'm not
entirely unreceptive to Joyce Carol Oates's remark about car doors either.
Irregardless (E.B. White please close your eyes), I'm happy I found you guys.
Truth seekers unite! Long live the Western Canon!
From: "Coman, Curtis"
To: "McGucken, Elliot (Ahab)"
Cc: "Coman, Curtis"
Subject: Avast!
---The Red Badge of Courage (S. Crane)
---Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (J. Verne)
---The poetry of Thomas Hardy
---Moby Dick (Melville)
---Kidnapped, Treasure Island, David Balfour (The Immortal R.L. Stevenson)
---Robin Hood (Chadwick? Can't quite remember the name)
---Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe)
---The Holy Bible (Almighty God; I read this anyway on a more-or-less
regular basis)
---Most of the plays of Shakespeare
---She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain (The Immortal R. Haggard)
---Vathek (W. Beckford)
---The Castle of Otranto (H. Walpole)
---Crime and Punishment (F Dostoevsky)
---The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, 'Til We Have Faces (The
Immortal C.S. Lewis)
(a.k.a. Curt Coman)
From: Randy Allan
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Letter to the Jolly Roger
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba
Sender: hacuay@potlatch.esd112.wednet.edu (Hafidha Acuay)
Subject: Re: ***THE JOLLY ROGER***
Hafidha (Heidi O'HighSeas) Acuay
From: OJThomas
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: ***THE JOLLY ROGER***
From: "stanley l. martin"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: The Jolly Roger
|Stan Martin, P.E. (martin@lvipl.dseg.ti.com) |
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| Software Systems Engineer: Texas Instruments, Inc. |
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To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
From: gwood@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Good for you!
From: Sarah Kate Flaherty
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Ahab rises again...
From: MAC
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Hello
From: jill
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Hello
From: Anonymous
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Well, it's about time...
From: Elliot McGucken
To: Samuel Anderson
Subject: Re: Oh!...I cannot say with words how my soul trembles...
From: "Joshua P. Hochschild"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Ahoy!
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: GOPLowe@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: link page
From: Jim McWhirter
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Review/comments on "The Mind of God"
Union College
Department of Physics
From: Joshua Lucas
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: The Jolly Roger
From: Samuel Anderson
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Your work- I want it
From: Cheryl
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: (no subject)
From: Charles Cagle
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Jolly Roger Poetry Contest
Against the cannon of conformity
Through the bloody iron hail
draw back at our deformity
and puke forth old milk at the rail
and fear not them who fear the night
but drag them with us through the gale
and cannot saith of Him we seek
Who gave us sight to see beyond the pale?
From: LC01_PAC_001@lincc.ccla.lib.fl.us
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Commenting from file
From: Dan Gonzalez
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/generationx.html
From: Grantland
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
From: NutmegGA@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Freelance?
From: Rita Zurcher
To: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: ***THE JOLLY ROGER*** (PART I) http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/jollyroger.html
From: LC01_PAC_001@lincc.ccla.lib.fl.us
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Commenting from file
From: Jonathan Arata
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Speaking of writing...
Sender: bruno.behrend@vmicls.com (Bruno Behrend)
Subject: Re:Some neat stuff I found on the internet for you - More proof that
everything is just like everything else
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Poetry submission
--jessica
From: Kirby Urner
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Review of Jolly Roger site.
of the Jolly Roger Stuff,
Having Just Squinted at its Web Site
for Some Time
October 8, 1995
Class of 1980
Kirby Urner & Dawn Wicca
"All realities are virtual" -- KU
Email: pdx4d@teleport.com
Web: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/
From: Mark Blevins
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Jolly Roger
Captain Kangaroo
From: allison smythe
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: (no subject)
From: "Rollin@hunterlink.net.au"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Literary Generation X
From: MHensh@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Cc: MHensh@aol.com
Subject: Great page
From: Todd Whitney
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: The Jolly Roger is Rated in the Top 5%
Point Communications
From: "Joel J. Chiri"
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: The Jolly Roger
From: James Harris
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Keeping in touch, etc.
The Stanford Harbor
From: Mike Fallon
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: (none)
From: "VanSickle, John, SSgt,PCA/SMSQ"
To: Ahab
Subject: My life before the Jolly Roger
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu Subject:
Keeping in touch, etc.
From: Mike
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Beaconway Press
From: Lindsay Pamela Cohn
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: a breath of fresh air
Lindsay a.k.a Inge the Valkyrie
From: "Wally J. Reef"
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: FANTASTIC!!! J.R. RULES!
Walter James Raleigh Reef
From: William Juntunen
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: POETRY
From: BOOTEN
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Jolly Roger
From: Eek
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: The Jolly Roger
From: sjs560@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Young American's Rule!
Young America Foundation Chapter
From: Phil Bradford
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: It is about time for something like this
phil
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: *THE JOLLY ROGER*
From: Rachel Williams
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: THE JOLLY ROGER
From: JJones2987@aol.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu, c-news-digest@world.std.com
Subject: It's About Time!!
JJones2987@aol.com
High Point, NC
(actually Reidsville, NC)
From: Eric Clark
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Liked the story in The Jolly Roger (and other stuff)
Eric Clark
From: Enrico Talin
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: ITALY & BEACONWAY PRESS
and if you want to here I wrote the html for the link....
Subject: The Jolly Roger!
From: 73462.17@compuserve.com
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Jolly Roger
From:Slack14@----
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: something I needed to express
From: David S. Roberts
Subject: Signing aboard Ahoy there!
To: mcgucken@physics.unc.edu
Subject: Bonanza http://www.bigeye.com
From: "Joel J. Chiri"
To: The Jolly Roger
Subject: Re: THE JOLLY ROGER Ahoy there Shiva! Welcome aboard!
From: Alan B Mclauchlan
To: OWL@SUNSITE.UNC.EDU
Subject: JOLLY RODGER
HOWS IT GOING JOLLY RODGER IT'S BIG BELLY"S PAL BEER GUT HERE
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From: Tom Ogden
To: owl@sunsite.unc.edu
Subject: Re: THE JOLLY ROGER
From: Ariel Gleason
To: owl@sunsite.unc.edu
Subject: Re: THE JOLLY ROGER
From: COS838@nwhs1.tccsa.ohio.gov
To: owl@sunsite.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: THE JOLLY ROGER
From: JED F HANES
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Willing to Contribute.
From: Jason Bates
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Walkin the plank, and all that
From: Joseph Cizek
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: My compliments.
From: "Rafael A. Acuna"
To: The Jolly Roger
Subject: greetings
From: stephen
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: My First Book Would Be...
From: Jennifer Kordus
To: mcgucken
Subject: The Jolly Roger
On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Coman, Curtis wrote:
Subject: Nantucket Ghost Story
From: Stephaine Herman
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Just a "hello"
From: Dan Kearney
To: mcgucken@jollyroger.com
Subject: Princeton and the True Education
From: becket
To: URF1@aol.com
Subject: Re: Ahoy!
URF1@aol.com
From: Jennifer Kordus
To: mcgucken
Subject: The Jolly Roger
From: commandr@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
To: mcgucken@jollyroger.com
Subject: Ahoy for a Northern Confederate
From: Asst Prof Clarence F Sills Jr
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Cc: jollyroger@jollyroger.com
Subject: Re: AVAST! ***THE JOLLY ROGER***
From: "J. Jones"
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Thanks for being there!
From: James Harris
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: Captain Redeard raves
The Stanford Harbor
From: Daniel Smith
To: becket@jollyroger.com
Subject: (no subject)