Author:  Gloria Monti <[log in to unmask]> at SMTP-LINK

Date:    12/16/94 6:34 PM

 

(Editor's note:  This message was sent by the "Author" noted above, not by

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> James Simon Kunen (and whatever happened to *him*?) wrote in THE STRAWBERRY

> STATEMENT, an often humorous account of the Columbia uprising, "I believe

> in the statment, 'Don't trust anyone over thirty, but think they should

> remove the zero."

 

 I'll tell you what happened to him the hypocrite: he became a lawyer.

 Maybe he should have killed himself instead. :-)

 Whatever happened to the film *The Strawberry Statement?*  I have never

been able to find it.  I only saw it once on Italian TV, dubbed.

>

> Walter Benjamin took

> his life when faced with the prospect of capture by the Nazis.  I have nbo

> idea what motivated Metz, DeBord or others, but have to regard their actions

> with a mixture of sadness and respect.

>

 Not the same, my friend.  Really not the same.  Primo Levi, who

survived the holocaust, also took his life thirty years later.  I believe

history is on the side of Benjamin&Levi, but not on the side of Metz--not

with the same degree of magnitude.

 

 Gloria Monti