Chill Factor (15 Jan 1996): 0%
So, rather than presenting our indecency in a way that could possibly be enjoyed by some unwary soul, we have asked our resident expert on indecency, S. Elf Righteous--Elf for short--, to explicate and eradicate the indecency, and so protect us from its harmful effects. Thank you once again, Elf, for bravely volunteering for this hazardous and thankless duty.
The indecency looks like this. It consists of verbatim selections from Chapter 21, "Seldom Seen at Home" of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang--a book that, we are quite afraid, is widely available and has been read by millions of obviously depraved Americans.
Elf's insightful responses to the indecency look like this. --Elf
Please read and decide for yourselves: Should the wretched indecency of "Seldom Seen at Home" be allowed to exist? Or should it be gathered into a gigantic electronic bonfire and roasted off the face of the net?
Green River, Utah. Susan's house. The watermelon ranch. An easy day's drive from Sheila's place at Bountiful, which was in turn an easy day's drive from Kathy's house near Cedar City. He'd planned it all that way, of course, from the beginning. Seldom Seen Smith hearkened to the prophet Brigham: he was polygamous as a rabbit.
Already the indecency begins--in the very first paragraph, the helpless children are exposed to a deviant sexual lifestyle. This deviant lifestyle is presented not only explicitly (as we shall see later on), but also in a positive light--as though this polygamous perversion were something that ordinary, everyday folks indulged in. The blasphemy! The perversity! The indecency! --Elf
Three o'clock in the morning and the bedroom was full of dreams. . . . Seeing how as these dreams are taking place in the "bed"room, one can easily imagine the extent of their indecency. But we need not imagine for long . . . --Elf
Smith lay in his bed beside his third wife and dreamed his troublesome dream.
They were after him again. . . . A warrant for his arrest
had been issued in San Juan County. . . . Smith fled down endless corridors of
sweating concrete. Under the Dam. Trapped again in the recurring nightmare of
That Dam.
Excuse me, but in the space of one short paragraph we have:
sounds, if it does not look, indecent.
Avoid the very appearance of indecency--that's MY motto. Yet our author seems to revel in it. Disgusting.
--Elf
Down in the dank bowels of Reclamation. Engineers on skateboards glided past, clipboards in hand. Pneumatic panels opened before him, closed behind him, drawing Smith deeper and deeper into the dynamo heart of the Enemy. Magnetic webs pulled him toward the Inner Office. Where the Director waited, waiting for him. . . . Smith knew he was going to be punished
"Punishment"--here we have more than a hint of sado-masochism. Deviance piled upon deviance, indecency on indecency! Furthermore, the veiled reference the the thrasher lifestyle ("Engineers on skateboards"--hah!) is obviously designed to appeal to children and teenagers--and it is well known that thrashers, in person and through the medium of their vile magazines, promote profanity, obscenity, pornography, anarchy and other forms of indecency. THIS MUST BE STOPPED! --Elf
The final door opened. Smith was dragged inside. The door slid shut and sealed itself. He stood again before the ultimate eye. In the presence. The Director peered at Smith from the center of an array of metric dials, scintilometers, temblor screens, Visographs and sensorscopes. Tape reels spun, their circuits humming, before the quiet buzz of electronic thought at work. The Director was monocular. The red beam of its unlidded Cyclops eye played on the face of Seldom Seen, scanning his brain, his nerves, his soul. Paralyzed by that hypnotic ray, Smith waited helpless as a babe.
The blatant phallic imagery of the "monocular" eye, so obvious that not even a child could miss it,
suggests yet a third form of sexual perversion within a single page! (Need I spell it out?) The damage to
helpless children who might read this vile outpouring is incalculable! Call your congressman today and
DEMAND that this OUTRAGE be halted IMMEDIATELY!!!! --Elf
"Seldom Seen Smith," the Director said, its voice now tuned to a human
intonation (modeled it would seem on the voice of an aging teenybopper
balladeer whose scraggly bearded unisex face has appeared on the cover of
Rolling Stone seventeen times since 1964), "where are your pants?"
"Unisex"--the FOURTH--count 'em: one-two-Three-FOURTH!!!--distinct form of sexual deviance explicity detailed in this
festering tarpit of obscenity.
The reference to Rolling Stone--again blatantly appealing to the prurient interests of children
and teenagers--is too vile even to comment upon. --Elf
Pants? Smith looked down. Good Gawd Almighty!
"Thou shalt not take the
name of the LORD thy 'Gawd' in vain." Obscenity in its VILEST FORM!!!!!!
And we need not even mention the lack of PANTS. By now we are so convinced of the degraded nature of
this "Seldom Seen Smith" that we are not AT ALL surprised that he is running around without pants on. --Elf
The scanning beam returned to Smith's face. "Come closer, fellow," the voice
commanded.
Need we mention, afloat in this veritable cesspool of filth, that the so-called "scanning beam" probing Smith's
"face" is yet another obscenity? --Elf
Smith hesitated.
Finally! Praise the Lord!! A miracle!!!! In this treatise of trash, in this siloloquoy of smut, this
debacle of debasement, our highly esteemed and literate "author" has managed to include a single decent
and respectable paragraph, lacking any and all profanity, obscenity, lewdness, immorality, indecency, deviance, and
perversion!!!!! How did he do it? How did he manage to express himself without relying on an appeal to the
basest human instincts and the most degraded forms of speech?
Well, there's little use speculating on how he does it--he obviously can't keep it up for long . . .
--Elf
This comes as no surprise to those of us experienced in exposing this sort of obscene trash. Indecency invariably
springs from the minds and mouths of the minions of Satan. How do I know? Because
Pat Robertson said
so!!!!! And so did Benny Hinn!! Who am I to
argue with these all-knowing spiritual authorities? --Elf
"Good. Affix the electrodes. Insert the anode into his penis. Quite so. The cathode goes up the rectum. Half a meter. Yes, all the way. Don't be squeamish." And did I predict cattle prods, too? This perversity knows no bounds. --Elf
The Director issued his orders to invisible assistants, who bustled about Smith's paralyzed body. "Good. Imprint the flip-flop circuits on his semi-circular canal. Below the ear drum. Right. Five thousand volts should be sufficient. Attach sensor wires by strontium suction cup to his coccyx. Firmly. Plug the high-voltage adapter into the frontal sockets of his receptor node. The head, idiots, the head! Yes--right up the nostrils. Be firm. Push hard. Quite so. Very good. Now close circuit breakers. Quickly. Thank you." If our "author" was indecent and repellent before, now he has gone over the top!!!!!! How can any man of decency and self-respect mention in public or even in private horrible, despicable, revolting, nauseating words such as those referring to the private areas of the human body? I rest my case!!!!! Call your congressman! Call your senator! Call the President, the Supreme Court!!! Call the FBI, the CIA, the KGB!!!! Even call the NSA and the ATF, for crying out loud, if it's necessary! We must immediately end this DISGUSTING discussion of the human body!!!!! Our children must be PROTECTED! --Elf
"Well now, Smith," the Director said, "--or should we call you (heh heh) Seldom
Scanned?--are you ready for your program? What's that? Now now, buck up. That's
a good lad. You have nothing to fear if you can pass this simple test we have
prepared for you. Call the taper, please. Good. Insert the magnetic tape. No
tape slot? then make one. Between the anode and cathode attachments, of course.
Right up through the old perineum. Precisely. Never mind the blood, we'll have
George clean that up later. Ready? Insert the tape. All the way. Hold his other
foot down. That? Then nail it down! Good. Quite so."
As if the previous indecency were not sufficient, our author now mentions an unspeakable area of the body
(the "perineum") that most people have never even heard of!!!!! Helpless children, unknowing adolescents, and unsuspecting
adults will be enticed to the dictionary, where they will discover obscenities previously unfathomed!!!! Oh, the
perversity, the indecency . . . the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <sob> --Elf
The Director's single eye beamed into Smith's pineal gland.
We scarcely need to point out the FIFTH--count'em: one-two-three-Four-FIFTH--deviant lifestyle cunningly
insinuated by this sentence. --Elf
"Now Smith, your
instructions. We want you to expand the simple exponential function y =
ex into an infinite series. Proceed as follows: Bn: transfer
contents of storage location N to working register; Tn: transfer
contents of working register to location n; + n: add contents of
location n to contents of working register; xn: multiply contents
of working register by contents of location n; / n: divide
contents of working register by contents of location n; V: make sign of
contents of working register positive; Pn: transfer address n to
accumulator if contents of working register are positive; Rn: transfer
address in location n to accumulator; Z: stop program. Is that
clear, Smith?"
The indecency promulgated by this putrid passage ("working register", "multiply contents", etc.)
is more than I can bring myself to publicly comment upon. --Elf
Numb as novocaine, Seldom could not speak.
"Good. Get ready. You have 0.000012 milliseconds in which to perform this basic
operation. If you fail we will have no choice but to transplant your vital
organs into more adaptable specimens and to recycle your residue through the
thermite crucibles. Are you ready? Good lad. Have fun now. Set the timer,
please. On your toes, Smith. count down from five. Here we go. Five! Four!
Three! Two! One! Zero! THROW THE GODDAMNED SWITCH!"
Is it any coincidence that, immediately previous to the vilely indecent gratuitous profanity in this paragraph,
there is a countdown from . . . where? Not down from just any old number, no! A countdown from . . . five! Five!!!!
FIVE!!!!!!!!!! The exact, precise number of deviant lifestyles advocated, up to this point, by this stinking piece of refuse that calls itself
literature!!!!!! The EXACT, PRECISE number--FIVE!!!!!!!! No MORE and no LESS!!!!!! Tell me that this is a mere
coincidence! Tell me that Satan is not cunning, clever, and devious in promulgating his profanity and indecency!!!!!
And furthermore, tell me that counting to "One! Two! Three! Four! Five!" (only backmasked, a common ploy of
demon-inspired rock bands) does not suggest six! Six! SIX!!!!!!!!
Yes, that's right! 666!!!!!! The MARK of the BEAST, as foretold by the PROPHETS, lo, these THOUSANDS of years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I rest my case. You must call your congressman now and stop the madness. --Elf
Note as well the explicit reference to a woman's "bosom."--Elf
This is PROOF that all indecency is the work of SATAN the BEAST and his DEVILISH DEMONS!!!!!!!!!! Call your
CONGressman NOW! and STOP SATAN IN HIS TRACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --Elf