Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

that he has no Other andcraves otherness... But our computers also
crave. otherness. They areautistic bachelor machines the source of their.
suffering and thecause of their vengeance is the fiercely tautological
nature. of theirown language.Punch did not always have his own play it
seems his. first role inEngland was to provide comic interludes in
serious. plays byinterrupting the action as and when he could. A
MODERN PUNCH SCRIPT. CHARACTERS PUNCH JUDY BABY
POLICEMAN CLOWNCROCODILE HANGMAN GHOSTthe.
challenge of the Ghost representing Death is considered
Punch'sgreatest. trial We long ago stopped believing in the immortality
of the soul. adeferred immortality. We no longer believe in that
immortality whichassumed. a transcending of the end an intense
investment in thefinalities of the. beyond and a symbolic elaboration of
death. What wewant is the immediate. realization of immortality by all
possiblemeans.the conquest of whom enables. Punch to finally defy the
Devil himself. So long as there is a finalistic. conception of life and
death theafterlife and immortality are given like. the world and there is
nocause to believe in them. Do you believe in. reality No of coursenot it
exists but we do not believe in it. It is. like God... Ifsomething does not
exist you have to believe in it. Belief is. not thereflection of existence it
is there for existence just as languageis. not the reflection of meaning it
is there in place of meaning. Tobelieve in. God is therefore to doubt his
existence. Belief issuperfluous just as. Canetti says vengeance is
superfluous it isrendered unnecessary by the. inexorable reversibility of
things. Inexactly the same way passion is a. useless supplement to the
naturalattraction between things and we might. say the same about
truthwhich merely complicates appearances unnecessary.. or as a mirror
merely refracts your image without believing in it.God for his. part if he
exists does not believe in his existencebut he allows the. believe in him
and to believe hebelieves in it or not to. believe that but not to believe
he doesnot believe in it. StavroginWhen. the Devil has been done away
with Punch exults to the audienceThe Devil is. dead Now everyone can
do as he likesBut what will the human race do once. free of any belief It
willeither fullfill itself egoistically obeying an. exclusive
sovereignindividualism (Stirner) or do so collectively by. setting out on
along historical course as in Marx or it will shift its. sights tothe
superhuman through a transvaluation of the values of the. species this is
the path marked out by Nietzsche who argued that the. humanrace
cannot be left to itself but must aim beyond itself and discoverthe. great
metamorphosis that of becoming... Nietzsche has writtenmagnificently.
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