The possibility of The Brooklyn Educrat is based on the possibility that saying what should be done has some relationship to doing what should be done. There are times when this possibility seems infinitely improbable, like when you tell a first-year teacher that they should never call the dean. Truth, in purely written or spoken form, is entirely unbelievable. Which does not bode well for the Educrat, your occasionally erupting fountain of pure truth.
It is Mr. Stickfigure’s particular perversion that his purpose is to make everyone feel like a first-year teacher again, so he won’t complain about the mystification and deconstruction of his medium. He is very curious, however, about what makes unbelievable ideas intersect with reality (which is only our most firm belief). How do we assimilate impossibility, how do we pull it down from the clouds and make of it the ground we walk on?
But that’s not really the question. I, Mr. Stickfigure, know the lived truth of what I speak, the truth that persists beyond words and before them. The question, dear reader, is how do you assimilate my truth? Just remember, it’s only my truth on the page. Out there in real life, it’s everybody’s truth. It’s not a matter of whether it’s true, it’s a matter of how long it takes you to realize it. So I’d like to know what I can say here—which is no particular place—that will help you assimilate my impossibilities.
If I could figure that out, I’d be a much better teacher, too.
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"The possibility of The Brooklyn Educrat is based on the possibility that saying what should be done has some relationship to doing what should be done."
in other words
it's possible to do the right thing
if The Educrat
is possible at all
---and look, here it is!!!
However,
"There are times when this possibility seems infinitely improbable"
this doesn't sound good!
"like when you tell a first-year teacher that they should never call the dean."
---Sometimes you have to go to their doorstep
---And Wait For The Official
---To Come Home
---And Try Your Best
---To EmBody The Truth
---EvenIfTheyDon'TRecogNiZe it!!!!
(Somebody told me that long ago
that when the puritans tried to live the word
Well, sometimes the word shows up to your doorstep!
I wonder who that was?)
" Truth, in purely written or spoken form, is entirely unbelievable."
It Is Not just unbelievable
It is unheard of
That'S How You Know It Is True
For Instance
I Was Down on 45 Wallstreet today
Look In for the Revolution
Because....
Well,
Let us just say
i used to be an academci mark-sist
then i started read in
and found more in marx
than i thought
and i frequently agree
with the crazey people
yellin an bangin around
but i guess thats
why i'm in Brooklyn right now!
" Which does not bode well for the Educrat,"
Shesh, your not kiddin.
Look at How They are
Mangling your words down there!!!
You just gonna sit there
an take it?
" your occasionally erupting fountain of pure truth."
i just wish it wasn't so messy
gettin truth everywhere
no body likes that.
but what were we talkin about?
Oh, the truth,
i remember that
derrida said it was a lie
then he died.
now any too bit smackademci
will snear at you
over drinks
at the projects
the ones they build for poetry
down in saint mark's church
oh, yeah, back to the truth:
"It is Mr. Stickfigure’s particular perversion"
he's a wll known pervert round these parts!
" that his purpose is to make everyone feel like a first-year teacher again,"
Shesh!
What a difficult Job
" so he won’t complain about the mystification and deconstruction of his medium."
dude, theory's over
they turned out the lights not long ago.
look at what they're doin up in columbia
an brown
an yale
an all the rest!
you are right, though
they are tryin
to pull a fast one on us.
" He"
who?
" is very curious, however, about what makes unbelievable ideas intersect with reality"
why?
Personally?
I think it's:
class
but i could be wrong
it would be nice if i had a person
to rap with about this
someone younger
but someone committed
with mad skills
who will endure
do his best
find the courage
to critique the mad
man in the hallway
at the hipster party
with the whites yellin him
things he already knows
but then they wont listen
to what he has to say
and that mad man
wailin'
furiously around
like a
well
like the madman he is.
and this young man
he screws up the courage
to come into the madman's
apartment
and take apart
his poem
--He was right, too
my flow sucks!!!
"(which is only our most firm belief)."
Oh, sorry to interrupt. I'll be good now, i promise.
I didn't realize we were readin
the consitution.
"How do we assimilate impossibility, how do we pull it down from the clouds and make of it the ground we walk on?"
Screw those guys!
They are just wrong
Let's have fun
"But that’s not really the question."
oh. what is it then.
"I, Mr. Stickfigure,"
yeah, i think
this tone is over.
try a more fun one.
go see some art or something.
get out of the house.
there's a whole brooklyn out there.
see some.
it's fun!
meet other people
n
talk to them.
" know the lived truth of what I speak, the truth that persists beyond words and before them."
"The question, dear reader,"
I am all ears
like the kind you put to a telephone!!!
" is how do you assimilate my truth?"
huh?
ass
im
il
ate?
this is not a word I knw!
"Just remember, it’s only my truth on the page."
'my'
ok if its like that then why do i have to hear it?
because i'm nice?
brooklyn has ALWAYS
been famous for its
nice!!!!
Let's
at least try an make it fun!
"Out there in real life,"
where's that?
"it’s everybody’s truth."
OK you lost me now.
slow down and speak clearly.
"It’s not a matter of whether it’s true"
Antecedant?
", it’s a matter of how long it takes you to realize it."
OH, I GoT It KnoW
THANK YOU!!!
There is this play you should see
really heart warming stuff
target margin put it on and its called
the dinner party or something
charming.
Really.
It'll warm your heart!!
"So I’d like to know what I can say"
uhuh
this 'i' guy keeps showin
up and gettin
between me and the truth.
"here"
where?
Oh, here,
i get it.
"—which is no particular place—"
wait a minute,
I thought we were just over there?
"that will help you assimilate my impossibilities."
Why would I want to do that?
sounds like poetry
which is disgusting
or at least I think so!
"If I could figure that out, I’d be a much better teacher, too."
that's it?
sounds defeatist to me.
i mean
how to i actionialize disorient this
in my professionalization rhubarbrics?
do you write this way to your students?
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