[the] xxxxx [reader]

[Bryan Snyder]

Ah... one of my favorite quotes EVER.

On 11/2/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> [the] xxxxx [reader]
> Published September 2006 in association with mute. 476 pages. ISBN:
> 0955066441
>
> 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
> and  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.
>
> Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow.
>
> With contributions from: Hal Abelson, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang,
> Florian Cramer, Yves Degoyon, Leif Elggren, Simon Ford, Olga
> Goriunova, Paul Graham, Graham Harwood, Stewart Home, Martin Howse,
> Jonathan Kemp, Friedrich Kittler, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz,
> Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno Marchal, Armin Medosch, Anthony Moore, Peter
> Norvig, Jeff Prideaux, Thomas de Quincey, Otto Roessler,
> socialfiction.org, Gerald J. Sussman, Julie Sussman, Oswald Wiener
>
> http://www.1010.co.uk/xxxxx_publication.html
>
>
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