vv2

[Terrance]

> 
> Is this a simple sailor's party or is it more to be seen as something like
> "rites and ceremonies in which the meaning of group life was consummated"  -
> in the classical sense where our arts derive from? (words by John Dewey, The
> Art of Experience, p. 7) - it's group life and Benny doesn't really belong.


Seems like the exact opposite of Dewey's Classical
extrapolation.  What is the art that the SICK Crew produces?
Also, Parties in TRP's fiction are surely not "rites and
ceremonies in which the meaning of group life [is]
consummated", are they? The group? What group? These guys
are connected by Benny, not the best way to reach out and
touch some one, I think. 



Then old Nobodaddy aloft 
Farted & belchd & coughd
And said I love hanging & drawing & quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering

				Blake