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
Jeremy Butler.)
 
> 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