File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-07.045, message 16


Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 00:29:48 +0000
From: Joćo Paulo Monteiro <jpmonteiro-AT-mail.telepac.pt>
Subject: Re: M-I: contemporary pathos


dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz wrote:


> Very interesting JP, but does this mean that capitalism is ripe for
> revolution yet?  Soon?   In Lima? Washington? Jerusalem?
> Dave
>

JP Monteiro:

As often happens, I don't know what (or wether) to answer you. Shall I
lecture you on the episthemological specificities of poetic language?
This seems like a perfect waste of time. Like we say here in Portugal:
"An old mule can't learn any french".
Salutes,
Jo=E3o




> > Snapshot of the I.M.F. by B.B.
> >
> >
> > copper and tugsten oscillate
> > in lima and also lusaka
> > hunger and rage get cudgeled on the streets
> > world's banking agiotage agents agitate themselves
> > act act now
> > murrow park wasshington d.c. is where
> > bureaucrat gods of sweated axils and prolix laughter
> > skim and classify cataracts of computer paper
> > separating life from death
> > they have their blood pressure rigorously watched
> > and detailed medical reports at the end of the month.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Broken bottles under children's feet
> >
> >
> > the night falls on an inured continent
> > i see beirut on tv
> > tomorrow i'll be at durban maybe
> > jerusalem belfast seoul
> > there's a real city on my thoughts
> > filled with all of the world's fiction
> > with protecting wire nets
> > rats on the terraces
> > the filth grape-shot on the streets
> > the next block there on the distance
> > one more step on the asphalt.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Introduction to the theory of catastrophes
> >
> >
> > the quark is probably divisable
> > and we'll never know a great deal about
> > matter's economy information entropy heat
> > do not search for beauty resist
> > voices that don't call you nor listen
> > grow and organize yourself.
> >
> > "in truth i live in an era of darkness -
> > said b. b. (1898-1956) -
> > a word with no duplicity is an absurd"
> > science proposes hazard games
> > the politicians smile
> > and a cloud sets in on the heart of europe
> > filled with secret thoghts
> > already shared with no horror
> > springsteen in minneapolis and juventus
> > on the alps stadium there's an electric vibration on the air
> > i fill it pass through
> > it whips the heart of the crowds
> > and this beats in unison brutaly
> > with no meaning.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joao Paulo Monteiro
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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