poseurs in "pomographic magazines"

[Otto]

> poseurs in "pomographic magazines"<

Nice typo, but what is "the gentle Houyhnhnm spirit buried in us all"? I
have an idea what the author means but I don't know the term.

I'm not sure if I buy the pornography-definition used here: "classic
pornography in the sense that it would stimulate anyone before sex (which is
what pornography is supposed to do)" which is the definition that once upon
a time had put Burroughs "Naked Lunch" on the book-market because it's
definitely not meant to be written to make us horny.

If I take a look on today's pornography the massive input of stimuli kills
every excitement. It totally lacks the aura of subversiness that pornography
once had.

Otto


>
> http://www.ireland.com/dublin/entertainment/books/carlo_gebler090601.htm
> excerpt:
> "Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's first novel, was published, with
> difficulty in Paris, in 1934. Joe, our Miller substitute in the book, is a
> 40-something American, engaged in writing a novel. As Joe struggles to
> write, he talks directly to the reader, in the free-wheeling manner of a
> stand-up comic of today about the life and times of himself and some
fellow
> expatriates. These men (and occasional women) are nothing like the
> prosperous Americans described by Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Joe's
> friends are hobo types with no money and plenty of attitude. To survive,
> they pose in pomographic magazines, work in brothels and rob whores."