[PEN-L:28228] Re: Re: WSJ reviews Marx 101

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:07 PM 07/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Kropotkin is frightening. I spent two months operating a gear shaver,
> and it took about 10 years for the last bits of steel in my hands to
> work itself either out or in too deep to see. Four hours picking
> cucumbers -- four hours handling hot covered steel rings covered in
> hundreds of tiny daggers. :-(

Not to shortchange homicidal physical labor, but I'd have to say my worst
job was being a security guard on the graveyard shift (11p.m. - 7a.m.). I
was guarding the Bank of America world trade center in San Francisco. You
wouldn't believe how awful it is to be up all night long and, added to that
misery, to realize that your job is to guard thieves' money. The only good
part of that job is that while reflecting on its contradictions, I finally
and truly understood "Hamlet." (It starts out with security guards too :))

Joanna