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Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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COINCIDANCE<br />

The following article deals with some of the<br />

same subjects, and contains no hoaxing or<br />

deliberate deception at all. Where I am guessing,<br />

I say so clearly. Where I do not specify that I am<br />

guessing, there are several sources for what I<br />

say, and I have reason to believe these sources<br />

are trustworthy. If what follows nonetheless<br />

sounds as bizarre as what you've just read, the<br />

explanation can only be that the world of<br />

modern power politics is, as Paul Krassner,<br />

editor of The Realist, keeps saying, much crazier<br />

than anything we satirists can invent.<br />

The first paragraph of this article, in which I<br />

go through some spaghetti-like convolutions to<br />

express what I mean without actually using the<br />

words "fuck" and "suck," was necessary because<br />

I was writing for an Irish news magazine.<br />

The secret of the Mona Lisa smile may never be explained, but the equally<br />

famous and more sensual smile of Marilyn Monroe has finally been<br />

elucidated. Marilyn projected that hypertumescent expression by looking<br />

tenderly into the camera lens and whispering softly to herself two old<br />

Anglo-Saxon words that rhyme with "duck" but have nothing to do with<br />

waterbirds at all, at all.<br />

This is one of the many revelations in Goddess, Anthony Summers' new<br />

book about the life and death of our century's most enduring sex symbol.<br />

Mr. Summers also informs us of how the girl born Norma Jeane<br />

Mortenson, an attractive-but-ordinary brunette, transformed herself into<br />

"Marilyn," the Blonde Bombshell who could make castrati chew a hole<br />

through the walls of St. Peter's: starting at 19, Norma Jeane studied<br />

anatomy the way Napoleon studied war, learned how to use every muscle,<br />

jogged every day (20 years before that became a fad) and even lifted weights.<br />

By the time she had become "Marilyn," Norma Jeane not only had her<br />

dresses specially designed but sometimes had the literally sewn on her body

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