MDDM Ch. 70 This Great Invisible Thing

[Dave Monroe]

"'They want to know how to stop this great invisible
Thing that comes crawling Straight over their Lands,
devouring all in its Path.'
   "'Well! of course it's a living creature, 'tis all
of us, temporarily collected into an Entity, whose
Labors none could do alone.'
   "'A tree-slaughtering Animal, with no purpose but
to continue creating forever a perfect Corridor over
the Land.  Its teeth of Steel,-- its Jaws, Axmen,--
its Life's Blood, Disbursement.  And what of its
intentions, beyond killing ev'rything due west of it?
do you know? I don't either.'
   "'Then,-- [...] you're saying this Line has a Will
to proceed Westward,--'" (M&D, Ch. 70, p. 678)

Cf. ...

"'One Sunday, instead of the salmon-trout he believes
his due, he pulls in a small snakelike thing, with a
double row of horrid little Vents either side of it,
from its head down the body, gasping open and shut,--
nine pair of them,  At first he takes it for a
Lamprey,-- but Lampreys have only seven pair.  This
thing is different.[...]  It seems to him almost that
the craeture is gazing into his eyes, with a look of
intelligent Evil....'

[...]

   "'Meanwhile the Worm is far from idle, having
almost immediately begun [...] to grow,-- [...] till
one morning, as the Sun rises, so up over the Rim of
the Well, appears a greatr blazing pair of Eyes, the
closely set, purposeful eyes of a Predator.[...]  The
Worm seems quite hungry.'

[...]

"Its needs are simple,-- Food, drink, and the pleasure
to be had from killing.[...]  Around it, a circle of
Devastation appears, pale and soil'd, which no one
enters, and which the World must keep shifting for, a
little at a time, as it goes on widening...." (M&D,
Ch. 60, p. 588-9)

And cf. also those Deleuzoguattarian "machines" ...

http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/deleuzeguattarionary/d/pages/desiring-machines.html

http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/deleuzeguattarionary/w/pages/war-machine.html

http://www.uncarved.demon.co.uk/23texts/warmachine.html

http://www.rhizomes.net/Issue3/marzec%20copy/marziii.html

Compare 'n' contrast ...

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