Participants and Source Material

What follows is a list of all sentences contributed to the Memeflurry 98 project, and their sources (when available.) Also included here is information on the participating contributors, indexed alphabetically by contribution.

I have provided e-mail addresses for most participants-- I have left the contact address off where authorization of address' release could not be established (due to bad connections, premature disconnects, sloppy notetaking, and/or participant declination).

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"A man wearing a cowboy hat, red shirt, two holsters, two guns and a red sash approaches the couple with his hands behind his back."

--from "Cowboys And Symbols", term paper, by Wesley Reynolds --contributed by Bob Rehak (zencat@email.unc.edu), Carrboro, NC.

"An intruiging mix established an up-and-coming talent, and with three front-runners in the lineup, the pace will be strong."

--from unidentified Racing Post article --contributed by Chris Sharp (chrissharp@almaroad.co.uk), London.

"And I'll go away on a sailing ship, and if I don't come back, throw away the damn baby."

--from Trinidad folk song, trad. --contributed by Lauren Hall-Lew (lah@u.arizona.edu), Tucson, AZ.

"And the groove thang he just sit there and hum."

--from "Fractal Paisleys", short story collection, by Paul DiFilippo --contributed by Coolzip (coolzip@pipeline), Queens, NY.

"Another snake skin shed, as is said."

--source unidentified --contributed by Ryan Gibbs (tryclarity@aol.com), Iowa City, IA.

"As soon as an animal is slaughtered, the meat begins to putrefy."

--from "Why Do Vegetarians Eat Like That?", by David A. Gabbe --contributed by Kelly Palmatier (kelly@lifeisart.com), Atlanta, GA.

"Be happy you're poor, too much money can make you crazy."

--from unidentified article, Free Times --contributed by Michael McLellan (oink@cae.insi.net), Columbia, SC.

"DVD and so much more!"

--from Circuit City advertisement, San Francisco Chronicle, author unknown --contributed by Jeff Hansen, Hayward, CA

"Everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now."

--from "The Garden of Forking Paths," short story, by Jorge Luis Borges --contributed by Aaron Griffin (Theyear_0@aol.com), Portland, OR.

"Getting started is easy."

--from America Online trial disk packaging, author unknown --contributed by Jeremy "Jebediah Brushwell" Bushnell (memeflurry@hotmail.com), Tucson, AZ.

"Henry Ford used a single design and inexpensive, mass-produced parts to make his pioneering vehicle affordable to millions."

--from "Builders and Titans", TIME Magazine, author unknown --contributed by Bretley 5 (bretly5@aol.com), Los Angeles, CA.

"His enemies also wanted to do something else to him, which would make him almost equally contemptible: they proposed to change his body into that of a woman."

--source unknown --contributed by Brian Bowling, Nashville, TN.

"Hundreds of kids dressed to the nines cross the blacktop moat, and scurry to the castle gates, where the guards allow them entry."

--from "The Wailers: Leaders of the Pack", article, The Rocket, author unknown --contributed by PJM, Bellingham, WA.

"In the days before CDs, welcome surprised often awaited people who bothered to play the flipside of top 40 singles."

--from "The B Side of Town", essay, My Table --contributed by Lady Kathy, Queens, NY.

"It was Room #35, from which I might have awakened the next morning a whore, or a madwoman, or what is worse, perhaps, altogether unchanged."

--from "Henry and June," by Anais Nin --contributed by Trevor Lohrbeer (muse@musespace.com), New Orleans, LA.

"Mistakes by the attending person here can have a devastating power and must be scrupulously avoided."

--from "Programming and Metaprogramming In the Human Biocomputer," by John Lilly --contributed by Jesse Davis (disembodied@hotmail.com), New Orleans, LA.

"One does not only exist one's pain or one's joy; one exists from pains and joys."

--from "Totality and Infinity," by Emmanuel Levinas --contributed by Danika Brown (danika@u.arizona.edu), Tucson, AZ.

"People--most people anyway--mean well, but being good is difficult and power tends to make you stupid or insane."

--from review of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," In These Times, author unknown --contributed by Jinny Keller (vkeller@enteract.com), Chicago, IL.

"Plug-in, permanently lubricated motor."

--from Braun Bath Fan package, author unknown --contributed by Hannah Haas (hhaas@iupui.edu), Martinsville, IA.

"Property is nothing but the basis of expectation."

--from "Whiteness as Property," essay, by Cheryl Harriss --contributed by Kat McLellan (kcm@u.arizona.edu), Tucson, AZ.

"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path."

--from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous --contributed by Sandra Dinwiddie, Olympia, WA.

"So good, so fast, so cheap."

--from advertisement (?) for Cottonelle Restaurant, author unknown --contributed by Beth Block (betaglass@hotmail.com), Green Bay, WI.

"Sun is deadly enemy for Gilbert 9-year-old."

--from unidentified article, Arizona Republic --contributed by Sunny Suchdev (ssuchdev@u.arizona.edu), Tucson, AZ.

"Tao says "What, you don't want to sysadmin for the NSA? Guess that takes the fun out of it.No fun cracking your own system.""

--from online dialouge, Crystal Shanty MOO, speaker unknown --contributed by Dr. Who (bryce@telerama.lm.com), Indiana, PA.

"Tender baby salad greens are highly perishable."

--from Heyday Country Market Cookbook, author unknown --contributed by Robin Lauzon (rlauzon13@hotmail.com), Peabody, MA.

"The above copyrighted word list reprinted by special arrangement with Remington-Rand who shares with us a deep interest in the field of education through its lines of school equipment."

--from back cover, Mead Spell-Write Steno Book, author unknown --contributed by Jeremy "Jebediah Brushwell" Bushnell (memeflurry@hotmail.com), Tucson, AZ.

"There was a string of spit stretching between the roof of his mouth and his tongue, I know when I'm a grownup I will have that too."

--from unidentified essay, by Caren Messing --contributed by Daisychain Chassis, New York, NY.

"Waste is the best-kept secret in the world."

--from "Underworld", novel, by Don DeLillo --contributed by Halley (iMProduced@aol.com), Portland, OR.

"What the hell is going on here?"

--from unidentified source --contributed by Fred Coppersmith (fxc121@psu.edu), State College, PA.

"Words may be false, and full of art; sighs are the natural language of the heart."

--from liner notes, Natural Language: The Emit Series 0098, by Thomas Shadwell --contributed by B. Saved (PO Box 7464, Richmond, VA, 23221), Richmond, VA.

"You are allowed one checked bag for the Green Tortoise bus and one carry on plus your sleeping bag."

--from "Green Tortoise Adventure Travel: The Only Trip Of Its Kind," brochure, author unknown --contributed by Mike (mbruton@mindspring.com), San Francisco, CA.

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