Homage to Cataluna - try #3 to remove HTML clutter

[Joseph Tracy]

The trouble with Pynchon is he is always finding ways to say things instead of beating around the bush in the sweet dreamland of aesthetic pleasure.
> On Oct 9, 2017, at 5:45 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> an example of that which makes much of ATD such uninspired reading, aestehtically-speaking
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> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> “WE LOOK AT the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with counter-Death, also known as Chemistry,” said Flaco.
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> He was a survivor of Anarchist struggles in a number of places both sides of the Atlantic, notably Barcelona in the ‘90’s. Provoked by the bombing of the Teatro Lyceo during a performance of Rossini’s opera William Tell, the police had rounded up not just Anarchists but anybody who might be in any way opposed to the regime, or even thinking about being. Thousands were arrested and sent “up the mountain” to the fortress of Montjuich which crouched thuglike over the city as if having just assaulted it, and when the dungeons there were full, prisoners were kept chained in warships converted to prison ships, lying at anchor down in the harbor.
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> “Fucking Spanish police,” Flaco said. “In Cataluña they are an occupying army. Any of the prisoners of ‘93 who weren’t Anarchists before going into Montjuich arrived rapidly at the heart of the matter. It was like finding an old religion again, one we’d almost forgotten. The State is evil, its divine right proceeds from Hell, Hell is where we all went. Some came out of Montjuich broken, dying, without working genitals, intimidated into silence. Whips and white-hot irons are certainly effective for that. But all of us, even those who had voted and paid our taxes like good bourgeoisie, came out hating the State. I include in that obscene word the Church, the latifundios, the banks and corporations, of course.”
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> Against the Day, chapter 28
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