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