[lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel?

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Tue Apr 15 14:46:40 PDT 2003


At 05:37 PM 4/15/03 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:


>Kelley wrote:
>
>>the left needs to find what and where it loves.
>>
>>"I was not a cynic by nature; only by revolt. I had got
>>away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I
>>loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to
>>love. Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the
>>world."
>>--John Fowles, The Magus
>
>"Behind every no lay a passion for yes that had never been broken." -
>Wallace Stevens

yah, but continually denying that there is a yes is what i'm getting at. :)

that denial, is the same aporia embraced by enlightenment liberalism.

kelley



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