ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I was thinking, just the other day, about Love's Body:

                   "Norman O. Brown is variously considered the architect 
                  of a new view of man, a modern-day shaman, and a 
                  Pied Piper leading the youth of America astray. His 
                  more ardent admirers, of whom I am one, judge him 
                  one of the seminal thinkers who profoundly challenge 
                  the dominant assumptions of the age. Although he is 
                  a classicist by training who came late to the study of 
                  Freud and later to mysticism, he has already created 
                  a revolution in psychological theory."

                  --Sam Keen, Psychology Today

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2502.html


I read the thing many years ago, and remember little in terms of content 
(other than recalling it was pretty freeeeky stuff, man) but absorbing 
instantly the notion of sculpting literary structure out of other peoples words. 
Of course, other writers use this mode, like Studs Terkel, but when I read 
"Love's Body" the quarter dropped and the jukebox started to play.

                  Mark Kohut:
                  Does anyone think it is Pynchon's way of indicating the 
                  darkness in us, in human nature when it is mangled by 
                  'the day's" narrownesses.....not allowed to be natural?
 
                  A kind of Return of the Repressed?.....We sorta know that 
                  Brown's Life Against Death was important to TRP...
                  (see stuff on GR)......so, here the Death Wish shows itself, 
                  buried in a remote location, in ATD?

                  David Casseres:
                  I can't help thinking of those many different versions 
                  of "The Mummy's Curse," in which a group of scientists, 
                  against the earnest advice of their guides, take an 
                  artifact out of its concealment and ship it home for
                  their museum. And as soon as they get to New York, 
                  it breaks out of its confinement and causes havoc.

                  David Morris
                  I agree with your take here. One gets the sense that the 
                  object was buried in a remote location for a reason. The 
                  ultimate "Mummy's Curse" cautionary-ignored tale would 
                  have to be that of Pandora's Box.