Atta (9): 242: Today's kick-ass question

[David Morris]

On 5/16/07, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh... no system really, but typical anarchist theory normally puts forth one where non-appealing work is shared (revolving schedules and the like) and the logic they follow is that the rest of the work would be done out of true choice, i.e. a farmer would WANT to farm and provide food, the carpenter loves to build things etc... self-actualization available to everyone.  I, personally, am aware it's a idealistic fantasy really only possible in very small communities

SPOILER!!!!!

I'm  in the 900's now, and won't finish AtD before I leave for a 2
week trip to Florence, and since the book is so big & heavy I won't be
taking it with me, so fishing AtD for me won't happen until mid June.
I'll also be missing from this list for that time period.

That said (only as an intro to where I'm at right now), last night I
read the section where Reef, Cyprian, and Yashmeen find the
Anarchist's Spa, and I really felt like I was reading some sort of
political tract (OK, it's not THAT extreme).  Thank God it doesn't go
on for endless pages, and it's written in a comic manner, so I sense a
certain amount of Pynchon's distancing himself from these ideals.  But
other than those two qualifiers, I immediately thought of the long
preachy segment towards the end of Atlas Shrugged (Yuck!).

I really think this book would have been better without that section altogether.

David Morris