NP: Charles Fourier

[mikebailey]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Glenn Scheper wrote:

> Studied Newton? 12 sexual passions? Planets copulate?
>
> I'll bet Charles Fourier has some insight to that core
> metaphor I'm trying to decode from book of Revelation.
> Maybe Charles Fourier's work informs P's core metaphor.

thanks for the info on Fourier.  I've done a little research into
anarchism & his name keeps coming up.

>From what you quoted, his flavor of anarchism is a lot more in line
with the kind of "anarchist" miracle that Pynchon would approve of.
He may be to poli-sci what Reich is to psychoanalysis?
Ivory-tower constructor, dreamer, grand-scheme maker..

And indeed, maybe a Fourierian sexual schema does inform AtD?