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

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > 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.


Upon rereading the above it sounds much too complacent and settled. Of
course we will continue to try to devise means to escape the system just
as we will never give up on trying to draw meaning from the text. What
text? Gravity's Rainbow naturally.

			P.