Monday, April 21, 2014

Book Excerpt for the Day


    All the interior doors had been taken off and stacked in the back landing.  Neither bedroom had a door.  There was no door on the bathroom.  Weathermen didn’t believe in the things doors stand for.  The desire for privacy embodied, in the Weathermen cosmos, the worst side of bourgeois individualism.  It was born in the same reflex that denied the body, abstracted the person, and thus prepared a kill target.  Besides, private intimacies might lead to private agendas.  To avoid this, everyone must go to bed and the bathroom with everyone else.  Private pissing was counterrevolutionary.   


    (from Ravens in the Storm by Carl Oglesby)

    9½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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