> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >> has unusually a quote from Isaac Deutscher's "On Socialist Man": "May
> >> I remind you that Trotsky, for instance, speaks of three basic
> >> tragedies - hunger, sex, and death - besetting man." Sex?
> >
> >By which I think he meant marriage, Russian novel style.
> >
> >Michael
>
> That, too, but Trotsky meant much more than that:
>
> ***** More than that. Man at last will begin to harmonize himself
> in earnest. He will make it his business to achieve beauty by giving
> the movement of his own limbs the utmost precision, purposefulness
> and economy in his work, his walk and his play. He will try
I snipped the rest of this. After reading that passage from Trotsky, I realized that the fourth tragedy is...well, Trotsky himself.
Terry