Monk's motto or: Is Against the Day in favour of the Night?

[Daniel Harper]

Well, yeah. I think part of the anachronism of the books (well, ATD anyway)
is that so few of the characters behave as if they were "real"
late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century people. The sexual content of the
books grounds the characters in the "present", thus connecting them ever
closer to "our" present.

I think this is a feature, not a bug.

On 7/29/07, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Daniel Harper wrote:
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> > ATD and GR are clearly the most sexualized of P's works, with GR
> > being far and away the dirtiest. There's a lot going on there, not
> > sure that the "socialist ideal" is really the best way of
> > describing it. I think a more useful way to think of it is as
> > simply the stated goal and end point of the Sexual Revolution
>
>
> and back then the revolution had not not yet even begun
>
>


-- 
...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
words...
--Daniel Harper
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