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larryhammer"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
"Grub first, then ethics," as it's commonly translated when not aiming for a singable score. It's a descriptive statement, but every once in a while, I imagine Herr Brecht saying* it prescriptively: "No, no -- you're doing it wrong. Grub first, then the ethics." Which inevitably leads to the obvious Pink Floyd parody: "If you don't eat yer grub, you can't have any ethics! How can you have any ethics if you don't eat yer grub?"
At which point I highjack my brain and forceably think about something else, such as tenser tensors or division by rabbits, as the crossover that is The Threepenny Wall does not bear thinking about. At least, not without a lot more alcohol and Marxist in-jokes than I can stomach.
* Yes, I know, in the original it's spoken, or rather sung, by two characters. Death of the author be damned, when it makes a good joke.
---L.
"Grub first, then ethics," as it's commonly translated when not aiming for a singable score. It's a descriptive statement, but every once in a while, I imagine Herr Brecht saying* it prescriptively: "No, no -- you're doing it wrong. Grub first, then the ethics." Which inevitably leads to the obvious Pink Floyd parody: "If you don't eat yer grub, you can't have any ethics! How can you have any ethics if you don't eat yer grub?"
At which point I highjack my brain and forceably think about something else, such as tenser tensors or division by rabbits, as the crossover that is The Threepenny Wall does not bear thinking about. At least, not without a lot more alcohol and Marxist in-jokes than I can stomach.
* Yes, I know, in the original it's spoken, or rather sung, by two characters. Death of the author be damned, when it makes a good joke.
---L.