Coetzee's Eliz Costello

[Mark Kohut]

was mentioned by a couple p-listers.

I went, a bit ago, to hear two philosophers talk 
about the section of this novel that was separately
published in which the fictional novelist
Eliz Costello argued for vegetarianism
for moral reasons............................

One perspective that came up involved how the 
"mechanization of animal/cattle slaughter" was akin
to the mechanization of the slaughter of human beings
in the 20th Century. No accident, as the logic [and history] has it.

This was before AtD and I was reminded of the same
connection made by TRP with the stockyard killing floor
bits from AtD............................

No, I think they each arrived at the notion separately 
(or from some of the same sources. A "famous" essay by Heidegger
was quoted by one of the philosophers.)

On pure speculation, I somehow think TRP and JMC know each other.
Two great writers with certain common themes---the State reflections
in the new one, for example........

But, I see TRP almost everywhere....I project his world...............


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