What Would Brinton Say?

My dear comrades,

Whilst I wouldn’t claim to be the first to attempt to define Brain Death, my extensive work on the subject is widely regarded as somewhat definitive. Besides producing the “ABC of Brain Stem Death” in 1983, I also authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s entry on death itself…

http://www.britannica.com/eb/author?id=2234

Allow me to add that whilst psychoanalysis doesn’t reveal any general objective truths, I’m sure my friend Mr Castoriadis could help me show that attempting to posthumously strip me of my hard won accolades is a Pavlovian response born of one's sexual repression and authoritarian conditioning.

Be well

Christopher

Dear Ping

A common sense inference from the tone of your retort would be that I, or others acting on my behalf, had claimed otherwise. I believe there may be some scar on your subconscious causing you to perceive meanings when reading that do not correlate with the words actually written.

Now, being dead myself, the effect of this specific behavioural incident is only minor in the overall scheme of things. However, assuming your psychosis stretches beyond information relating to me personally, I’m concerned that you may represent a general liability to the working class. That is to say, the difference between the world as-is and the world as you perceive-it-to-be might be very large.

Be well

Christopher

Dear Paul

Indeed Paul. It’s funny you should mention it actually. Cornelius, Andy Anderson, a somewhat fresh-faced Ian Bone and I played cameos in episode three, series two, you know. I bet you can’t guess which one I was. Of course, some of us could play our roles much more authentically nowadays.

Best of luck with Class War, by the way. I think you’re a smashing bunch. I expect to see a few of you up here one day. Along those lines, please pass my regards onto Ian if you should cross paths, I understand Cornelius wants to have words with him.

I will be haunting the transcendentally moralist Anarchist book fair this year, and although I have powers as a spectre, including, as luck would have it, no sense of smell, I have yet to perfect the ability to inhabit two places at once. This means I’m going to have manifest myself in Meeting Room 3 at 14:00 for the “Story of Solidarity” rather than the CAMRA meeting. This is a pity, although I expect they’ll have a few spooks of their own anyway.

Be well

Christopher