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Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 15 Dec 1994 18:00:13 CST
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Author:  Gloria Monti <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12/15/94 10:20 AM
 
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> Guy Debord was 37 during the French uprising of 1968, or the Chicago
> Democratic Convention, or the Chinese Cultural Revolution or lots of other
> moments in a year when a popular motto was,
> "Don't trust anyone over thirty!"
 
 I was thinking about this just the other day, wile reading a piece
on the anniversary of the Berkeley uprising. How can one still believe
the dictum, once they *are* over thirty?
 
> > So why suicide at 62, was he
ill? > Was he trying to push the greatness that comes at the end of life?
 
 Why Christian Metz? Why Claire Johnston? Why do these great film
theorists take their lives?
>
 Gloria Monti

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