BtZ42, Vp.41 (the real thing)

[David Morris]

Their present "taking on" of propaganda consists of violating rules/laws in
order to have their own "zone," a space for their love.  Why must that
space be in a cold bombed-out wasteland (why not in a more comfy place?)?
I think that is a better question.  It almost seems as if they are offering
the War the example of their fucking and loving in the heart of its
devastation as a talisman of literal fucking against its power.

David Morris

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Good question. I assumed the “more” was about risk to personal safety,
> that the town is evacuated because it is a target, and/or  damaged and
> without the safeguards of a well maintained infrastructure: gas, water,
> police???
>
> > On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > [Please excuse the previous version, sent prematurely]
> >
> > Roger & Jessica's life in the evacuated town "is marginal, hungry,
> chilly—most times they’re too paranoid to risk a fire— but it’s something
> they want to keep, so much that to keep it they will take on more than
> propaganda has ever asked them for."
> >
> > What propaganda "asks them for" is outlined a paragraph earlier: "it’s
> better to-gether, snuggled in, than back out in the paper, fires, khaki,
> steel of the Home Front. That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a
> fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert
> love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death."
> >
> > Restated later, p. 177: "Damned Beaver/Jeremy *is* the War, he is every
> assertion the fucking War has ever made—that we are meant for work and
> government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams,
> the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found
> among the idle and mindless hours of the day . . "
> >
> > Question: what exactly is the "more" that R&J will take on to keep what
> they have? What do they do to themselves that is somehow *like* and
> *beyond* what the collective psychosis of "total war" is demanding?
>
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