. . . "and we'll all go on as if." - Christine Brooke-Rose

[donsu]

"Soon the economic system will crumble, and political economists will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoky entrails and utter soothing prognostications and we'll all go on as if."

"Soon the ecopolitical system will crumble, and sado-experts will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoking entrails and utter smooching agnostications and we'll all go on as if."

"Soon the psychic warfare system will crumble. Psychideologists from all over the world will lean over it and take their soundings and utter smoothing proagnostications and we'll all go on as if."

", a heavy whale panting leglessly on a distant shore to give birth to a small profoetus in a flapping of fins before the final gasp. The ecozoologists will then fly in from all over the world and poke its entrails and fraudcast a stooging diregnosis and we'll all go on as if."

"Due to the monetenergy crisis, some specialist or other will reply to some question or other in the news, man will try to do more and more with less and less but there will be a painful transition during which he will do less and less less and less well if you follow me."

"Let men do more and more with less and less or less and less less and less well, the faster the media the slower their reactions in the rush with which they will speed through history."

"Meanwhile the ecopoliticonomists will fly in from everywhere and poke the entrails of the grunterrnean fire and mutter smoothing pragnostications and stake out their statistics to announce the coming recovery, the summit in inemployment figures will be reached in about nine months and we'll all go on as if."

"During the night the bulletins will repeat themselves, slightly altering the emphasis, doing more and ore with less and less then less and less with nothing."

"Millions of childen of the globe whose brains may atrophy for lack of protein, a ninety percent illitercy when you must know that no modern civilization can progress at over fifty per cent."

"Further news may come in any moment and we shall of course interrupt the programmes as soon as we receive new information and we'll all go on as if."

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these excerpts were scattered throughout the novel Amalgamemnon by Christine Brooke-Rose. they were so profound I copied them out and saved them all these years. Recent threads here made me think you all would like to read them too.

Amalgamemnon
British Lit. Series
July 1994
paperback I-56478-050-3