Salient Notes

Yes folks, dialectics are all the rage this summer, and Salient have never been known to let the old side down. So when we all get tired to Trot-Maoist split, something must fill the vacancy left. What better than a materialist-metaphysics split.

Taking Salient Office by strategy was accompalished primarily by John Ryall clutching Big Lenny and not letting anything away as usual. Slight resistance was provided by Pat Bartle as she straffed the masses with her big IBM and SAL.

Leading the neo-materialist thrust was Lindy Cassidy and Leonie Morris who leads an exciting life at times. Mentor Terry Auld also added theoretical assistance. Checking his writings was Patrick Mulrennan who couldn't take it and later retired to an alligned position.

The non-Marxist factions consisted of ex-arty farty Ben Smith now taking up his new position of reviews editor, relieving David Murray who is known to be wanting to indulge in some protracted study in order to maintain his dialectic with the neo-materialists and the Sosc dept.

Metaphysists followed the great inspiration of Gerard Couper but tend towards tautology and suicidal tendencies. Reformed revolutionary John Henderson reverted to motor cycle maintenance but doesn't wish to spread it around.

Gyles Beckford waits anxiously at the doorway for his new pair of legs and obstructed Rachel Scott who could be heard singing "Get me to Kwangchow on time". Kevin Swann occasionally stops work upon which Lionel Klee takes over. The latest in Canty University gear Mike Stephens displayed bouts of milk tokenism, in the process inciting riots which threatened the dictatorship of the proletariat and trampled a dazed, most a chless and shady Roy.

While Martin Doyle and Anne Maree exchanged metaphors and euphorisms, Hemal Gurusinghe and Aruna Amarasuriya indulged in Krishnamurti in a bid for the Metaphysics stakes. As the prospects for armen struggle dwindled with the light fading, Bernard Randall began quoting Gary Lewis and the playboys causing Chris Wilson to flail himself with Engels "The rise of the family, private property and the state' sung to reggae melodies.

And so we say farewell to Balham, so until next week, it's goodnight from me and it's goodnight from him.