GRGR(24): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Terrance wrote:

> 
> If you have it about, you might take a look at Norman O.
> Brown's 'Life Against Death' Part One


Yes I do have a copy of that so often referred to classic though have not
consulted it lately. Perhaps I will do so as you suggest. 


> > 
> > In the end we all will fail. But the System will not fail.
> > 
> >                         P.
> 
> Now, that sounds like this, "We're all going to fail," Sir
> Marcus primping his curls, "but the Operation won't." (GR
> 616) But it's not the same, is it?
> 

That was the quote I was aiming for but didn't want to get the
book out. Perhaps the Operation is only a subset of the System. Or a
synecdoche for the system which itself doesn't literally exist
but stands for the predicament in which society finds itself and
from which there is no escape. The system is a text we are trapped in. 
More or less something like that.

			P.