tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444931.post112642676656293483..comments2023-11-03T05:31:49.839-07:00Comments on The Labyrinth: Contemplating HellThe Otherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202774577431515110noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444931.post-80988677110314715692019-04-25T09:44:37.832-07:002019-04-25T09:44:37.832-07:00Its not necessarily about los angeles. Co.e on. He...Its not necessarily about los angeles. Co.e on. He said his brother lives in london and thinks that is the hell. He mean to say that cities we live in are living hell.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201630305772994804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444931.post-1126476711733308702005-09-11T15:11:00.000-07:002005-09-11T15:11:00.000-07:00I don't think it's all nostalgia. About the same y...I don't think it's all nostalgia. About the same years Brecht's fellow citizens Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno lived here in Los Angeles. they had their own criticisms about the Modern society the US represented at the time. Adorno and Horkheimer wrote the book Dialectic of Enlightenment here in LA in 1945, probably about the same time Brecht wrote this poem. In that book they described what, The Otherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17202774577431515110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444931.post-1126466250281720282005-09-11T12:17:00.000-07:002005-09-11T12:17:00.000-07:00And this is a German writing about Los Angeles? I'...And this is a German writing about Los Angeles? I'll be charitable and attribute this to nostalgia and forced exile. And I detect a streak of stern, almost matronly socialist morality (see, money can't buy you happiness) that I hadn't seen in Brecht before. <BR/><BR/>Concern about being thrown into the streets consume all humankind, and in this sense the poem can be about Los Angeles, the thalassa_mikrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01942716364297839680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444931.post-1126461277962798042005-09-11T10:54:00.000-07:002005-09-11T10:54:00.000-07:00Beautiful!Beautiful!Baby Blueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692199014428599686noreply@blogger.com