Sex after Fascism

[Henry Musikar]

Dave Monroe wrote:

"I don't want you to take it personally, much less as an insult, so ..."

but he also wrote:

"My normal response to this would be something along the lines of, who do
you review books for, The Moral
Majority?"

I guess au contraire on both counts, DM.  Why is this book, which you have
not read, so important to you that, even unread, you want to pimp it so
badly that you choose to ignore the actual point of my concern? Any academic
book on Sex/Fascism does not concern itself at some length with the studies
and writing by, and eventual alienation and persecution (including the
destruction of equipment, the burning of studies, and jailing) of W. Reich
(Moral Majority, indeed, you...) even by the USA (it can't happen here), is
missing something. 

As bad as someone posting to the P-List that there's a new book on WW2, but
they haven't read it.  One should suffer through a book, unless the book is
in some way unprecedented, which SAF doesn't, on first glance appear to be,
before bringing it before this august body.

There's a final Harry Potter book coming out, by the way.  I hear it's gonna
be a doozy! At least that's what the author and publisher say...

Henry Musikar


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Dave Monroe
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:37 PM
To: Henry Musikar
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Sex after Fascism

--- Henry Musikar <HMusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> The promo looks to be over 250 words and includes
> the phrases "fundamentally reconceives" and "sexual
> politics;" ...

My normal response to this would be something along
the lines of, who do you review books for, The Moral
Majority?  One generally should at least have
attempted to suffer through a book (or a film, or ...)
before complaining about it, but ... 

But, first off, I'm not sure, are we on to the book
itself (which neither of us have read) or the
description (which can't be expected to cover
everything even IN the book, much less NOT in it) or
even the index (?!--but it does look thorough, at
least), and, second, I don't want you to take it
personally, much less as an insult, so ...

Do note you can read the intro online ...

For the record, me, I'm not atempting to recommend
something I haven't read (or may never get around to
reading), this is one reason I don't comment myself, I
just figured, looked like it might be of interest to
someone here, even if I can't follow up on it, so ...

Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine here, so ...