Comments on: Gottfried Maurer’s Treatise of the Three Impossibilities, Part One

By: starchild to praxhe

starchild to praxhe — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:06:20 +0000

Swan on the wing, black
swan and the same loneliness of creating

something mature in natural quality,
to not fear error or fake

knowing what I don’t know
mostly gets me down and worrying

in stars for constellations I’ve shown
myself the constellations

are mostly always the same–
the sound of the names mostly changing

and I could fly in the names I’ve known
but never, as consternation

when reading the swan sky,
black on the wing, should never not matter.

By: der Akademischen

der Akademischen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:11:57 +0000

isn’t the fact that the fiction isn’t the fact the fiction of the fact?

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:52:18 +0000

6 volumes totaling over 2,400 pages equals no more than an APPD prank?

L O L

Now that’s funny!

By: Luis Augusto

Luis Augusto — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:19:32 +0000

No it’s Turcios Lima but yes you can call me Augusto. To begin, I am shocked that you could possibly cite anything that the Anarchistische Pogo-Partei Deutschlands has say about themselves, their activities, or anything else, with even a smallest bit of trust! The APPD who continues to campaign for Mitfickzentralen throughout Germany! Whatever your source for connecting these asoziales to Maurer, I am sure it is another one of their APZ pranks. Dumm aber glücklich!? The ploy is all too fitting.

As far as your own conclusions-I will admit that Maurer’s estrangement from the world and his periodic disappearances after 1992 generated much speculation regarding his sanity, sex life, political association, &c., especially after he turned up stuck on the wrong side of the Northern District Assault in Khartoum. But could I make the kind of leap you are suggesting from these meagre coincidences?

Even putting the man’s life aside, however mysterious, could a book itself exist before it is produced? Let alone a man? Will you argue that Maurer-like the subjects he traced further back into humanity’s history-was resurrected by his revelations? I am naturally wary of such extremes but look forward to your response.

By: Edgar Garcia

Edgar Garcia — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:34:49 +0000

I am humbled by your obvious deep appreciation of this often sadly overlooked thinker. But, Mr. Augusto, I must disagree with your conclusion that Gottfried Maurer could not have written the second edition. As late as early 2008, he was still active in the nonpartisan editorial component of the German Anarchist Pogo Party critiquing the “Middle East Interactive Crisis Guide,” funded by the CFR spearheaded in Germany by Drozdiak. Through that year he was still giving talks at Anarchistische Pogo-Partei Deutschlands (APPR) conventions. He surely must have been, in short, able to write this book!

That being said, my main point was not about the “structure,” but that the content of the “first edition” could simply not have been imaginable without the conclusions reached in the “second.” For this reason, I will argue in the subsequent posts what I have suggested here, that is that Maurer did die–not in 2008, but sometime in the mid 90s! The originality of the second edition will therefore be attributed to the possibility that the Maurer of the second edition comes before the first because by the time of the second he had been resurrected, reborn, reconstituted (there is really no word to describe the possibility of the fact) and was therefore working in a state antecedent to himself before his death (in the 90s). But now I am, if you will, getting ahead of myself…

By: Luis Augusto

Luis Augusto — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:39:53 +0000

Mr. Garcia, I think that you grossly overestimate Maurer’s involvement with the production of the second edition. There would not have been a second edition if it were not for the forces around him pressing the work’s completion and even directly intervening during and after his life in the writing itself! As a matter of fact, for the last few years of his life, Maurer could hardly care for himself. How could he have written a book? It is my estimation that what has been, as you put it, “structured,” in the second edition, was the mere work of interveners who did not understand what the original project was all about.