Paul Valery, Charles Fourier, & Michael Perelman (was Re: bay guardian interview...)

[Rob Schaap]

Well, Doug's marvellous interview met the crucial requirement that I agreed
with it all.  I'd go on about how he pitched it beautifully, too - only I'm
cross with him for not finishing the book.  I ordered it months ago, with
all kinds of other books, and I'll receive none of 'em till Doug's book is
out (can't come at the postage costs otherwise).  Shit, there may not even
be an Amazon by then ...

So I'm inviting Doug (and Yoshie and Kelley and all the other chronic
non-finishers out there) into the phalanstery.  Sure, geography prevents
the expression of those Fourierist passions with due bodily commitment, but
at least we can make a game of the fraught business of finishing books and
dissertations.  To the first to finish, I selflessly commit that bottle of
Scotch Daniel owes me, and woebetide the one who hasn't finished before
Barbara Cartland Perelman finishes his next book!

Unityism in competition, I say!

Happy 01 to all,
Rob