Author: [log in to unmask] Date: 12/20/94 11:55 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]).] Gloria Monti writes: "> 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. " I know they are not the same. My point was only that people may take their lives for many different reasons--I honestly have no idea what motivated Metz or DeBord, although I know about Levi. There's also the pain of chance--consider that Camus and Barthes were both killed by traffic accidents. Fate sucks. --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN