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

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Daniel Harper wrote:

> 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.

except no one is practicing safe sex.
>
> I think this is a feature, not a bug.

I'm sure this is the case.

P.
>
> On 7/29/07, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Daniel Harper wrote:
>
> > 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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