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[Ian Livingston]

The pig thing is likely an allusion to Zeus & co. See the Odyssey,
e.g., and The White Goddess.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pig Suit.
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "A point of agreement among contemporary political thinkers of the
>> most diverse approaches ... is that the means by which society
>> controls its subjects are ever more difficult to perceive, and that
>> the possibilities for change ever more difficult to identify.   To
>> follow a vocation at once philosophical and political is ... to act
>> and think on the basis of something we all know: that things in our
>> world not only can but should be different."
>>
>> --Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009)
>>
>> http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16082
>>
>> Cf., e.g., ...
>>
>> "... how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for
>> diversity?" (Lot 49)
>>
>> "Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the
>> singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" (GR)
>>
>> "Does Britannia, when it sleeps, dream? Is America her dream? [...]
>> serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive  Hopes, for all that may
>> yet be true ..." (M&D)
>>
>



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