sexualization of the world in TRPs works?

[Mark Kohut]

ian wrote:
   
  Another thing that comes to mind, from reading Mircea Eliade's The Forge and the Crucible, is the role of the "sexualization of the world" in T.P.s novels.  Eliade notes that at the beginnings of the cultural trends that evolved into alchemy, one of the important trends in the development of the emerging metaphors of being was the role of imputing sexual identities to inanimate forms in nature.  Black metals were rigid and found at the surface, while red metals were soft and found deep in the bowels of the (feminine) Earth. Orgiastic gatherings were a ready part of fertility rituals, and some of the arcane prescriptions for, e.g., grafting trees sound downright fun.  I might have to re-up my arborist certification to get into some of these....
   
  Yes, to sexualization of the world or whatever kind of animism or Pynchonian pantheism plus, that he puts down.....

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