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Quotation of the Day for March 19, 2012"How is the catastrophe [depicted in Titanic] connected to the couple, the rich upper-class girl and the poor lower-class boy? After making love, they go up on the deck and embrace again and then she tells him, "I will stay with you and abandon my people." At that moment the iceberg hits the ship. What's the point? I claim the true catastrophe would have been for them to stay together, because it wouldn't work and they would split. It's in order to save that impossible dream that the ship must sink." - Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 28, 2012  |
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