Sex after Fascism

[Dave Monroe]

On 2/27/07, Henry Musikar <HMusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> As bad as someone posting to the P-List that there's a new book on WW2, but
> they haven't read it....

Or, for that matter, that there's, say, a forthcoming Pynchon novel,
or critical work on Pynchon, or literature and any number of
subtopics, or historical work on, well, again, any number of topics,
or ... well, now do you understand now my objection to such
objections?  Me, I eventually actually go out and get and even read,
maybe, if I haven't already read them (and I post no small amount of
that reading here), not only much of what I mention here, but a fair
amount of what others namedrop as well.  Similar postings by others
are  useful to me, at any rate ...


Meanwhile, discussions of sex 'n' fascism are definitely at elast
potentially relevant to reading pynchon, even if they don't (as
Reich's of course shouldn't have) discuss Pynchon,
but perhaps Reich isn't so relevant to Herzog's take thereupon.  Maybe
I'll find out.  But she does come highly recommended ...

http://press.princeton.edu/quotes/q7955.html

I've even posted from Herf, Rabinbach and Laqueur here, as I recall ...

Do note that had I posted something like, is anyone familiar with ...?
 and gone on as I did, all that'd be left would be to complain that
the book description didn't mention Reich.  Which, again, is too much
to ask of a publisher's description, albeit a fair request to make of
Herzog.  And, even though she doesn't need to, she apparently obliges
nonetheless, even if it doesn't look like she devotes nearly as much
space to Reich as she does to, say, sex and/or fascism ...

Again, I wouldn't harp on this, but it doesn't even take my usual, uh,
reductios (?) ad absurdum and/or nauseam to address the logical
problems here.  Again, nothing personal, think of it more as a class
action thing.  Me, I'm here for the info'mation, I appreciate most
everything i get, so ...

> on first glance ...

A very brief and limited glance on yr part, do note ...

But ...

> 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...

 ... but here's where you perhaps confuse/compliacte the issue.  Yr
complaint was, the book description didn't mention something you
thought indispensibly relevant to not only the book at hand, but any
book on the subject(s) at hand.  Again, just how exhaustive do you
think a publisher's description should be? Should Scholastic be
telling you, say, who dies in the forthcoming HP novel?

No apply this all to, say, discussion 'round tehse parts betwixt
rumors of a new Pynchon novel, the revelation of teh title, that early
amazon.com posting of Pynchon's (used by his publisher as tehir)
description, and teh novel actually coming out ...