LPPM MMV "The Awareness of Being a Cog"

[Dave Monroe]

"... and after a while he would drift up to the
surface again and be annoyed with himself for worrying
about these things when the data inside the briefcase
should have been at the office fifteen minutes ago;
and realize, reluctantly, that the racing against
time, the awareness of being a cog, the elan--almost
roguery of the playboy element in the Commission which
went well with his British staff officer
appearance--even the intradepartmental scheming and
counterscheming which went on in jazz cellars at two
in the morning, in pensions over brandy and soda,
were, after all, exciting." (MMV, p. 1)


"drift up to the surface"

Cf. ...

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea  
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5616/prufrock.html

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/prufrock.htm


"the awareness of being a cog"

   "'Shit, I can square that. But I'm only a cog.
Don't go thinking I know everything. All I know is my
trade.'" (GR, Pt. IV, p. 711)

And, of course, mechanism, determinism, et al. ...


		
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