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Dogs, Derrida, debate, and elephant



Subject: Dogs, Derrida, debate, and elephants

Dear Burmanet contributors,

Thank you each and every one for the last days
posting. I got home today from yet another hell
on wheels day at work to find:

* Okkar inviting us all again seductively to
frequent the precincts of virtual Myanmar (good
try Okkar but for the time being I'm having a
don't visit virtual Myanmar campaign until real
Burma is free) while at the same time providing
what seems to have been a koan like response to
Roger 
* Derrida making an entry to the listserv via
David Arnott and inviting us to consider the
totalising principles of the post modernist
world and the coherence of the concept of
forgiveness within such a paradigm (or at least
that is as far as I have got so far)
* a toing and froing about how much gold is on
Shwedagon Temple
* a sort of debate about icons/religion (BBC,
Buddhism, temples, the English Royal family,
dope all seemed to be involved to varying
degrees)
* something about an elephant lead recovery for
the Myanmar economy leading to the decision that
Myanmar didn't need the UN's $1million aid (but
maybe I'd got a bit deconstructed by that stage)

all carried out in what looks like to me some
care for each other, accompanied at times by
doses of healthy disrespect, as the
debate/polemic/manifestos went backwards and
forwards. Maybe it is something to do with that
full moon. It was hanging low and huge and
yellow over the Sydney skyline this evening
bringing traffic and people to a stop to just
look and wonder. Maybe it is something in the
air from all those good thoughts of the good
people in Burma. If so I thank you even though
you won't read this as you don't have access to
faxes and modems; I send my good thoughts back
to you.

In the meantime, thank you Burmanet
contributors. You gave me today a sense of
community, passion and commitment. I am now
smiling after my day rather than gritting my
teeth (I even had a chuckle over some of the
postings - even though I know that there is a
serious intent that we can't lose sight of in
all this), and I'm about to wander out the back
to breathe in the scent of jasmine in the night
air.

In peace
Susan Locke