V-2nd C4 Allografts

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

>> "This mineral period"
>>
>> I.e., of "believing himself no more animate than ..." ...
>
> See Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton, 1959, 1961):
>
> "Let us suppose, then, that all the organic instincts are
> conservative, are acquired historically and tend towards the
> restoration of an earlier state of things.... [I]t must be an old
> state of things, an initial state from which the living entity has at
> one time or other departed and to which it is striving to return by
> the circuitous paths along which its development leads. If we are to
> take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything living dies
> for internal reasons--becomes inorganic once again--then we shall be
> compelled to say that 'the aim of all life is death' and looking
> backwards, that 'inanimate things existed before living ones'" (45-6).

Thanks ...

"The phrase renders almost explicit a connection between Schoenmaker
and Fausto Maijstral III, whose affinity with the inanimate rubble of
his bombed island home arises out of a similar wartime tragedy."
--Grant, p. 63

... severe connection difficulties today ...