He wanted to confront his Lip watch - which he had bought directly from the Lip workers when they had occupied their factory and which had never worked very well - but he discovered that he no longer had it.
[Manchette, 3 to Kill]
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In the absence of any real solidarity movement the workerist character of the struggle prevailed over its proletarian origin as the conflict developed. In their isolation the Lip workers were unable to go beyond the immediate conditions they had faced from the outset, and it was from this narrow basis that they rushed into struggle. Attached to their isolated factory, they strengthened their consciousness of themselves as producers, and attempted to realize in practical terms that consciousness. They resumed the production of watches. The "Lips" -- and that is the origin of their disgusting popular nickname -- became a collective capitalist.
["Lip and the self-managed counter-revolution" from Négation No. 3, 1973]
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He made several false starts that ended in pathetic and painful tumbles. At last, he had the idea of crawling and using his fingers for purchase. In this way, he dragged himself up a short incline and reached ground that was all broken up and distinctly discouraging: nothing but sharp rises, patches of bare granite, tangled branches brought down by lightning or avalanche, and vertiginous overhangs. From an aesthetic point of view, the landscape was highly romantic. From Gerfaut's point of view, it was absolute shit.
[Manchette, 3 to Kill]
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