From: Christopher Arthur (arthurcj@WAITROSE.COM)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 04:52:26 EDT
Hi Jerry I support Riccardo and Andy in this amusing discussion. You are rigght there is always a problem with metaphors. The point in using them is to highlight one significant parallel, not to claim there is a complete correspondence at every point. Of course the danger is precisely that readers may pick up unintended parallels as well as that intended. Now the reason the vampire metaphor is so absolutely brilliant is that it goes beyond the parasite idea to bring out that what sucks the lifeblood of wrorkers in not another flesh and blood subject but an incarnation of undead labour. It was brilliant of you to throw this in - if the commodity contains 'dead labour' then in capital as such a store it has become active as 'undead'. That is as far as we need go. But in any case your point about what happens next I asm not too sure if you are correct. In most cases it seems the victim is sucked dry and thrown aside as a (really) dead husk. I am not too sure if the contamination idea is in the original legends and in the movies depends on the person not suffereing so much loss of blood. But who cares? the brilliant point is that the undead are feeding off the living. Chris 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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