Safe children

[Gillies, Lindsay]

=============ronkarate quotes from vineland:
>Brock saw the deep...need only to stay children forever, safe inside some 
extended national family.
=============hg notes that this is
"the key to unravel much of TRPs attitude towards the sixties
"in general, and the USA-dominated post-WW2 zone in particular (in
"_all_ his works).
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As an exdenizen of those times, I think Brock's vision is deeply, though 
only partly, true.  Hg's note sets me thinking on the ubiquity of the theme 
of dominance/submission, a-and masochism in general.  So many instances 
spring to mind, even the boiled sweets episode that, like Nigel, makes me 
roar each time even though I know its coming.  Are there any characters who 
are not struggling under the sway of an authority or compulsion?