AtDDtA(15): The Practice of Boys Informing on other Boys

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/16/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

>    "The practice of boys informing on other boys, regarded with horror
> at more traditional institutions, had at the Marching Harmonica Band
> Academy come to command a curious respect even from those who were apt
> to suffer from it most...." (AtD, Pt. II, pp. 420-1)

"unannounced punishments"

Cf. ...

Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7849

http://www.volny.cz/ifolber/psaci/texty/kafka/process.html

Samuel Beckett, The Lost Ones (1970)

http://www.pixelyze.com/lostones/

And see ...

Samuel Beckett, How It Is (1961)

http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?GroveProc~book~169

... on the master-slave dialectic ...