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374 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
It’s a complex structure we live in: there are also Inspectors for the Inspectors. Occasionally this leads to wars between groups of them, and we, the populace, utterly powerless, suffer the consequences. Don’t ask me to explain how it all works, the mechanics of the system. That would be impossible; the only way to see the structure is from the inside.
A game of hide-and-seek. As if we had entered a labyrinth, a hall of mirrors, and lost track of the true image. Or perhaps all the images we saw around us were true. Should we accept them all, then, admitting multiplicity? Or keep searching for a single truth?
The mechanism of repetition. Get up, have coffee, go to work, come home, eat, watch TV, go to bed.
Like a wheel spinning in place. Producing what? Nothing, zero, zip. A perpetual-motion machine. It went on working nonstop your whole life long. Unless someone interfered with it. Without interference, things go on and on, they become eternal. Intervention is what we need, someone interrupting things, making themselves an obstacle to repetition.
The System’s clever web of lies and tricks: do something, undo it, and then deny it…