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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s represented a change in people's openness about sexuality more than a change in the sexual practices that went on behind closed doors.

A well-known example:

http://www.my-secret-life.com/

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 29, 2007 2:41 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Monk's motto or: Is Against the Day in favour of the Night?
>
>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
>>
>>
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>
>-- 
>...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
>words...
>--Daniel Harper