Gospođa Rembo Rajli

Krajem aprila sam pisao o jednoj zanimljivoj vezi između protagonistkinje jedne Dilanove pesme i jednog romana Doris Lesing. Pre nekoliko dana čitajući jedno zanimljivo izdanje beogradskog Loma, uočio sam još jednu takvu vezu, za koju smatram da je zaslužila da bude primećena i ovde.

Pomenuto izdanje je antologijski izbor iz poezije i lične korespondencije Artura Remboa pod naslovom Pustinje ljubavi (priredio Flavio Rigonat). U predstavljenim pismima, jedan od čestih motiva je Remboova frustracija majčinim odnosnom prema njemu. Sadržaj jednog konkretnog pisma neodoljivo podseća na muke junaka jednog romana koga će se čitalac, nadam se, sam setiti pre nego što ga uvedem kroz nekoliko pasusa.

David Estlund’s Two Roles for Hopeless Normative Theories

After a long abstinence from hc political theory, I took up David Estlund’s Democratic Authority. I struggled with his writing style at first, forgetting how winding the theory road can be, but as pages went by I got used to it. Chapter after chapter, Estlund first gives you a proper headache with his complex argumentation, only to explain it perfectly clear at the end of the chapter/section. Once you see this pattern, hope of understanding this book returns.

The Baby Blue Terrorist

The Good Terrorist is a wonderful novel by Doris Lessing about a girl with burning desire to go beyond the simple, meaningless existence by engaging in class warfare which turns out to be a sad combination of picketing and administrative struggle over squatter rights (tiny spoiler: with some actual petty warfare in the end). The motherly care she gives to her comrades reminds me of some time that existed before the events taking place in Bob Dylan’s It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, and the inability of the song’s addressee to see her fosterlings for what they are.

No great insight here, just a small, nice, irresistible link that I somehow see and enjoy.