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sometimes i think ace is a fiction invented by a trotskyist as a performance art piece.
the piece is a parody of conservative thinking.
it features a remarkable incompetence in the handling of information, an absolute refusal to think critically about his own assumptions--one that is linked (obviously, when you think about it--and here is a bit of ham-fisted work on the part of the trotskyist) to a refusal just as absolute to move outside those assumptions.
in the piece, the character "ace" never actually talks about the world, but only about how the world feels to him on the Island of Solipsism.
and that's what makes it fun for the trotskyite to make his fiction "ace" do things---no matter the topic, it ends up being all about him.
which is not that different than what happens at academic talks during the questions when various fac members of departments x or y stand to ask why they weren't mentioned or why their interests were not foregrounded.
and so on.
which is why i suspect that the trotskyite is a graduate student somewhere.
btw, i don't find the character believable.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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