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For March of 2010 : A few good excerpts from : some books you might enjoy/ones i like.
Astra and Flondrix : Author-Seamus Cullen : Chapter 12-WHEN ALL SEEMS LOST, NEW FRIENDS ARE FOUND pages133-134….The great wolf hurtled out of the forest and stopped dead in its tracks, the long foaming snout pointing immediately to the trees behind the cottage. With a howl, she started racing towards the trees. When she was abreast of the cottage, frightful crash echoed through the clearing. The hearthstone sounded as if it had been smashed to smithereens. A blood curdling howl tore the night air.
“Where are you, you filthy slut? Where is my beautiful ceremony? My human sacrifice, my great feasting and rejoicing?” The worlf form disaooeared and a terrified Bumbree stumbled tot he door, dragging her Mother outfit along the ground behind her.
The Sane Society : Author-Erich Fromm :Chapter 8 ROADS TO SANITY-Section A : Socialism as a problem. page277 There can be no doubt that the results of Socialism, where it has been practiced so far, have been at least disappointing.What are the reasons for this failure? What are the aims & goals of social and economic reconstructiomn which can avoid this failure and lead to a sane society? According to Marxist Socialism, a socialist society was built on two premises:the socialization of the means of production and distribution, and a centralized and planned economy. Marx and the early socialists had no doubt that if these aims could be accomplished, the human emancipation of all men from alienation, and a classless society of brotherliness and justice, would follow almost automatically. All that was necessary for the human transformation was, as they saw it, that the working class gained political control, either by force or by ballot, socialized industry, and instituted a planned economy. The question whether they were right in their assumption is not an academic question any more….while the Russian system showed that economically a socialized and planned economy can work effeciently, it proved that is is in no way a sufficient condition to create a free, brotherly, unalienated society. On the contrary, it showed that centralized planning can even create a greater degree of regimentation and authoritarianism than is to be found in Capitalism or in Fascism.
The Berlin Stories: Author-Christopher Isherwood :chapter 1, page 13 GOODBYE TO BERLIN With absurd, solicitous gravity, the dancers performed their intricate evolutions, showingin their every movement a consciousness of the part they were playing. And the saxophonist, letting his instrument swing loose from the ribbon around his neck, advanced to the edge of the platform with his little megaphone: “Sie werden lachen, Ich lieb’ Miene eigene Frau…” He sang with a knowing leer, including us all in the conspiracy, charging his voice with innuendo, rolling hsi eyes in an epileptic pantomime of extreme joy. Bobby, suave, sleek, five years younger, handled the bottle. And meanwhile the two flaccid gentelmen chatted to each other, oribably about business, without a glance at the night-life they had called into being; while thier women sat listen, looking neglected, puzzled, uncomfortable and very bored.
Frl.Hippi Bernstein, my first pupil, lives in Grunewald, in a house built almost entirely of glass. Most of the richest Berlin families inhabit Grunewald. It is difficult to understand why. Their villas, in all known styles of expensive ugliness, ranging from the eccentric-rococo folly to the cubist flat-roofed steel-and-glass boz, are crowded together in this dank, dreary pinewood. Few of them can afford large gardens, for the ground is fabulously dear: their only view is of their neighbor’s backyard, each one protected by a wire fence and savage dog. Terror of burglary and revolution has reduced these miserable people to a state of siege. They have neither privacy nor sunshine. The district is really a millionaire’s slum.
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