First Couple-Three Pages: 6/11 - ATDTDA (11): 296 - 326 --The Deep Read:

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Mark Kohut:
          Here's the big essay question of the day:  

And a damned good one, at that. 

          MK:
         "the wide-open promise of desire 
          unleashed"...
          What does this mean in TRP's vision?
          ....oxymoronic?.......'desire unleashed' 
          might be taken in other books, in our 
          usual conversation, as a bad. destructive 
          thing.....why does it hold "wide-open 
          promise"?......

That is, in part, a joke son. Pinnochio, wide eyed on Pleasure Island,
comes to mind, as well as a Paul Simon lyric:

"The open palm of desire wants everything."