[matilda] crime and punishment

[Amparo P Gutierrez]

Capital punishment or just cutting their heads off?

Crime and punishment... yeah great fiction. I much enjoyed Dostoievsky's 
short story, The Gambler, even if as a translation.
About conspirational theories: well of course "1984": terrorists are 
sponsored by the same government that's supposed to fight them... and 
other short fictions and movies: a great terror effect is created 
whenever what's thought to be "a conspiration" turns to be "real".

 From Adorno's "Commitment":

"Commitment as such, even if politically intended, remains politically 
ambiguous as long as it does not reduce itself to propaganda. (...)
Although no word that enters into a work of literature divests itself 
fully of the meanings it possesses in communicative speech, still, in no 
work, not even the traditional novel, does this meaning remain 
untransformed; it is not the same meaning the word had outside the work. 
Even the simple "was" in an account of something that did not exist 
acquires a new formal quality by virtue of the fact that it "was" not."

[Do unicorns exist? Yes, and we love them.]


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