Occupying Anarchism

[alice wellintown]

And Conrad would ask you to read any of his stories and after doing so
it would be clear that the suffering of the heart is common to
capitalists and anarchists; and this is the theme of his works; we see
that the anarchist and the capitalist, the white man, wise man, and
the workers he exploits, even enslaves, suffer, for they are secret
sharers or doubles. seems nothing all that novel in Pynchon, that
double vision, an historical and not a-historical double-bind is a
kind of mirror held up, as Conrad would have it, to the sea of
troubles, or as Hamlet would, to the Nature of man. Although, as the
fool and the clown who digs his grave, or digs up his skull as he digs
a grave he lies in, is a labor lost on Hamlet.

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> To Conrad I would reply, "Capitalists truly are hard of heart, clever, and
> think themselves smart."
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> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:38 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The story, as Conrad tells it, deals with corporate advetisments, for
>> meat products, a penal colony for cattle and men. Our narrator is a
>> hunter of the rare and beautiful butterfly not named or desribed. The
>> butterfly. Reminds me that not a few authors have used the butterfly
>> as symbol. Conrad uses it again and again. Here, in the anarchist, the
>> story he calls, not an ironic tale, the subtitle he saves for The
>> Informer, but a desperate tale, the insect, like the critique of
>> adertisment, is quickly abandoned as frame narrative distraction that
>> permits authorial commentary on the narrator and his
>> self-consciousness, his rejection of gulability and his independence
>> from the corporate scheme, though all rather ironic as he is an
>> unreliable narrator who quickly establishes the apparent truth of his
>> tale, as Conrad often does, by telling it as it was heard by a
>> desperate man whose tale telling has no motive other than to expose a
>> desperate man who must remain desperate.
>>
>> Papillion, a true story novel, like Shantaran, is much the same; how
>> the worm takes flight with a tale.
>>
>> Conrad sez, of anarchists, they are soft of heart and not so smart.
>> Sounds about right. Anarchism can never rid itself of the obvious,
>> what gave it a rebel, as Camus might call him.
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason
> is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for
> the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the
> streets." -- Will Durant