nine one one

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i enjoyed this very much. good literature in relation to life is a good 
thing.


>From: "\"*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-." <smobipliap at netway.at>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: nine one one
>Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:58:32 +0200
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> >Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the
> >dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World.  But the meanness, the 
>cynicism
> >with which this dream is to be used.  The Serpent that announces, "The
>World
> >is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning," is to be
> >delivered into a system whose only aim is to _violate_ the Cycle.  Taking
> >and not giving back, demanding that "productivity" and "earnings" keep on
> >increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World 
>these
> >vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing 
>a
> >profit:  and not only most of humanity -- most of the World, animal,
> >vegetable and mineral, is laid waste in the process.  The System may or 
>may
> >not understand that it's only buying time.  And that time is an 
>artificial
> >resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the System,
> >which sooner or later MUST CRASH TO ITS DEATH, when its addiction to 
>energy
> >has become more than the rest of the World can supply, DRAGGING WITH IT
> >INNOCENT SOULS all along the chain of life.  Living inside the System is
> >like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on 
>suicide
> >... though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the
> >loudspeaker...
> >
> >--GR, p.412 (emphasis added)
> >
> >
> >




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