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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> posted
> Auden:
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>> All I have is a voice
>> To undo the folded lie,
>> The romantic lie in the brain
>> Of the sensual man-in-the-street
>> And the lie of Authority
>> Whose buildings grope the sky:
>> There is no such thing as the State
>> And no one exists alone;
>> Hunger allows no choice
>> To the citizen or the police;
>> We must love one another or die.
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> Thanks for posting this. I would have forgotten it.
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> But I also have a question to ask. I know I talk about Badiou a lot, these
> days, but I need help here. I have seen Badiou somewhere talking about
> Auden, and I am trying to figure out if it's this poem, because it should be
> . . . in particular, the passage above, I think.
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> So I don't mean to start a thread, but I am hoping someone out there with
> some knowledge of Badiou can help me track down any discussion of Auden, or
> most especially of this poem.
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> thanks,
>
> j
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