From: soren.pedersen-AT-warwick.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:39:22 +0100
Subject: Re: The Matrix and film



> Is the following from Society of the Spectacle?
> 
> >Debord: "A financier can be a singer, a lawyer a
> >police spy, a baker can parade his literary tastes, an actor can be
> >president, a chef can philosophise on cookery techniques as if
> >they were landmarks in universal history. Anyone can join the
> >spectacle, in order publicly to adopt, or sometimes secretly
> >practise, an entirely different activity from whatever specialism first
> >made their name".
> 
> 

It's from the sequel, comments on the society of the spec. There's 
an online-version of the book at:

http://www.netby.net/Oest/Hyperion-
Alle/Simulation/other_articles.htm

Soren