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

[Mark Kohut]

"History is a step function"---TRP in V.
   
  I would argue, I think, that the sexual content is predictive, projective, a consequence of 
  the meaning of the characters' relationships....and now "possible" in the era of
  Edison and Freud.....Interpretation of Dreams, Freud, 1900 pub.

Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com> 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. 

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:

> 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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