Maybe what’s happening is that we’re all becoming children again. Our rigid roles and characters are dropping off like dried skin. We’re fascinating to each other because each one of our acts might be a total surprise, at any instant our personalities might change completely. Like children, we’re not exhausted by what we’ve been and are; life is ahead of us; we’re no longer dead.
- Sophie, (page #561)
Yesterday, August 20th was Fredy Perlman’s birthday. Are birthdays important? I don’t know, but they are nice. It also marks the end of Insurgent Summer, and even though I still haven’t finished the book yet (so close!), here is a brief post. Like Yara, I will be spending the next week going to the mountains, or rather you could say – someplace far away in the middle of nowhere. Goodbye Internet, and goodnight neverland. Hopefully, I will finish reading the book there, and write my final thoughts on it, upon a rock somewhere instead like Lem. Or not. Lem, in all honesty, kind of freaks me out, and sorry in advance, but I see him as a bit wing nutty, or crazy as society may think (what…!? there is no such thing as society you say?). Or – better yet, maybe bring some back, to share as some final thoughts here. I think part of that will be sharing some of my favorite posts from others who read the book this summer. So, it may take a while to brush up on everything. Don’t hold your breathe.
“The contradiction between the subject of those books and my own mindless drift became unbearable to me.”
- Sophie (page #570)
Oh, really?
no army can be “popular”
- Yarostan, (page #510)
This quote reminds me of something my mom always told me growing up – that “no one ever really wins a war”.
How about something less lethal… like, books – you say?
Sure. On a totally different note, although when put through Kevin Bacon’s nine degrees, things seem alright. Here is a link to a works in progress, where I hope to highlight some of my favorite texts / and other stunning material, like stuff you can’t find anywhere else on the Internet, collections of stuff, and other misc from the anarchist library.
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cool. it already looks like an excellent reading list; I’ll be happy to see it develop.
keep it mr. rogers, compadre!