File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9812, message 123


Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:34:29 +0000
From: Daniel Haines <daniel-AT-tw2.com>
Subject: Re: 'Total  Recall's' Traum


michelle phil lewis-king wrote:
> 
> This is a description of Eduard's Traum (Edwards dream) by Wihelm Buch
> written in 1891 which could describe 'Total Recall'
> 
> " It is a world without a heart, without kindness or love, and the people
> inhabiting it seem, therefore to be weightless and bodyless. Like ghosts
> they flit past us in quick succession. In this world, from which mind and
> soul are absent, no intimate ties exist between human beings. Instead they
> push, beat, betray, and destroy each other. Occasionally, these "filmstrips"
> seem to form a brief sequence as when the cheater of a moment ago becomes
> the person cheated. But the moral perspective is by no means prominent
> enough to furnish an over-all meaning."
> 
>  Wolfgang Kaiser. 'The Grotesque in Art and Literature.'

what a great quote - i can see how it relates to total recall as well...
is this book available?

dan h.

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