Our New Deathkingdom

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I am re-reading Kosinski's "Blind Date". For a different take on Life and
Non-life, consider Kosinski: Jacques Monod (the French biologist)is dying
and has just informed his friend, the principal character, Levanter. Monod
is leaving Paris to die in Cannes. Levanter is upset. "'Why won't you
remain in Paris? All the life-support equipment is here.' Monod looked at
him steadfastly. 'To be hooked up to life through a machine?' he asked
abruptly. 'The flame isn't worth the candle.'"

Literary and Pynchonian notes: the phrasing "hooked up to life through a
machine" is marvelous. The machine as intermediary. And the candle
metaphor...Res ipsa loquitur. I get paid to construct and interpret
metaphors. No freebies.

I am not sure TRP would agree that Life is always better than Non-life.

A different perspective is all.

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> No way. Life is always better then Non-life.
>   z.
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> rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>   why not wait for the final delta-t with a million others
>
> beats sucking fake air on a dead rock with no toys
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> The Sunday Times
>> March 9, 2008
>> Mankind's secrets kept in lunar ark
>> Maurice Chittenden
>>
>> IF civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space.
>> Plans are being drawn up for a "Doomsday ark" on the moon containing
>> the essentials of life and civilisation, to be activated in the event
>> of earth being devastated by a giant asteroid or nuclear war....
>>
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3511818.ece
>>
>> "Will our new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon?" (GR, Pt. IV, p.
>> 723)
>>
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