Author: Gloria Monti <[log in to unmask]> Date: 12/15/94 10:20 AM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] > 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