Negative Liberties & RWE

[Mark Kohut]

shakespeare works the body as the body politic metaphor with his
usual ingenuity early in Coriolanus........

From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> 
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: Negative Liberties & RWE

















 mystics his rebirth each second
>> Businessmen his nervous system
>> No-hustle men his stomach
>> Astrologers his balance
>> Lovers his loins
>> His skin it is all patchy
>> But soon will reach one glowing hue
>> God is his soul
>> Infinity his goal
>> The mystery his source
>> And civilisation he leaves behind
>> Opinions are his fingernails
>>
>> Maya Maya
>> All this world is but a play
>> Be thou the joyful player
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:12 PM, alice wellintown
>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is
>>> One Man,--present to all particular men only partially, or through one
>>> faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole
>>> man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is
>>> all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and
>>> soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled
>>> out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint
>>> work, whilst each other performs his. The fable implies, that the
>>> individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own
>>> labor to embrace all the other laborers. But unfortunately, this
>>> original unit, this fountain of power, has been so distributed to
>>> multitudes, has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it
>>> is spilled into drops, and cannot be gathered. The state of society is
>>> one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and
>>> strut about so many walking monsters,--a good finger, a neck, a
>>> stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
>>>
>>> Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things.
>



Livy says that Menenius told the soldiers a fable about the parts of
the human body and how each has its own purpose in the greater
function of the body. The rest of the body thought the stomach was
getting a free ride so the body decided to stop nourishing the
stomach. Soon, the other parts became fatigued and unable to function
so they realized that the stomach did serve a purpose and they were
nothing without it. In the story, the stomach represents the patrician
class and the other body parts represent the plebs. Eventually, Livy
concludes, the patricians conceded to some of the plebs' demands, such
as creating the tribunes of the people and establishing legal
protection for all citizens against arbitrary intervention from an
elected magistrate, and the soldiers returned to the city.

2011/12/7 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
> The incredible String Band
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2R86hZGKo
>>
>> The great man, the great man, historians his memory
>> Artists his senses, thinkers his brain
>> Labourers his growth
>> Explorers his limbs
>> And soldiers his death each second
>> And
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