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Date:    12/20/94 11:55 AM
 
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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