>recognized your pain but doubted the wisdom of your words on symbolism...
My post on life as being "symbolic" was a provokation. Oddly enough, I
thought all of you would have grasps its tone. It is sad for my English
that my mood did not get through to you....but there you are, I am so very
a foreigner among all of you. (Mind you...I am not complaining.....I like
it.. ).
I am indeed saddened by media broadcasts showing the absurdity of this war,
set between such discrepant forces, the semi-pastoral sandy other- than-
technological war champs of the Afghanistan troops and the high missile
technology of the American star-war basis.
It is like watching a play of the absurd theatre . And at the same time, it
makes you ill for the grotesque unbalances between these two antagonists.
It is an unfair conflict, not because one is good and one is bad, one is
right and one is wrong, one is progressive and one is conservative….it is
absurd and grotesque because it is disproportionately unfair.
So, now I understand better Camus, so, here I see Beckett's point, in real
life, and not through textual analysis of their languages and imageries.
Oh, our infancies! when we were told that horrors were over and would no
longer come back.
Please, colleagues and comrades absurdists, come to term with the fact that
none of us is no longer immune, these days, matter of fact.
erminia
>rest of my mail concerned other points.) Your final sally, though, again
>seems to mistake my point about idolizing History. Maybe there just isn't a
>happy ending. Not even in a couple of millennia, after the Ice Age.
(Strange
>to think that Communist millenarianism has come to this.) That doesn't stop
>us yelling & screaming & groaning & whispering, does it? But I do agree:
>prends la rhétorique et tords-lui son cou.
>Best
>Martin
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