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Created on 2009-04-13 03:16:01 (#50526), last updated 2009-04-13 (836 weeks ago)
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| Name: | Sarah |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | Jan 12 |
| Location: | Canada |
This explains a lot: For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You -- you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. Or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs. Saul Bellow, Herzog, 1964 |
Other Stuff: Sarah; 22; Canadian; soon-to-be-grad student I'm really into westerns, sff, and complicated social theory. This journal will probably have a large amount of all of the above. |
alternative country, battlestar galactica, bookstores, brian k. vaughan, bruce springsteen, buffy, china mieville, contemporary art, critical social theory, deadwood, feminism(s), firefly, genre films, keeping notebooks, magic: the gathering, massey lectures, other things that are not westerns, painting, reading fanfic, sarah slean, video games, war strategy board gaming, westerns, westerns in space
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