Wednesday, April 11, 2007

I have previously described the central character in my story as suspicious, or, in the broadest sense of the word, paranoid. He does in fact feel like "they are against him." "They" are the enthusiastic members of of society, the spokespersons for, or supporters of, social values. He suffers from the fantasy that societies are cults which feed on the unwitting and unsocial. In short he fantazises a certain animus emanating from the societies of which he is a member. So his rather unheroic quest within the pages of my story, is first to see if it is possible to see a world that is not socialized, and second, if he sees, or, imagines that he sees such a world, to gain thereby an understanding of what it is that he must do, or, not do' to "go gently into that good night."

The war which the corporate body wages is the war against the disincorporated, the war against the "body without organs", the body at equilibrium. It is the body from which the corporate body is born and into which it dies. At both ends of spectrum the corporate body resists; both at birth and at death the corporate body eats as a defense against being eaten. But the war is temporary and it does not end in victory. Why do our teachers repress this knowledge?

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