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[alice wellintown]

He is turned on by the new package, what she said she'd never be but is now.
The make up, the clothes, the fetish, the actress. And when he tries
to talk to her about Right & Wrong, she turns it into an equation,a
credit and debit loyalty equation. She is femme fatale and he has a
hardon for her. He wants her to be safe. To save her.

But its Love In The Western World.

In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise,
Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the
psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood.
At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict
in the West between marriage and passion--the first associated with
social and religious responsiblity and the second with anarchic,
unappeasable love as celebrated by the troubadours of medieval
Provence. These early poets, according to de Rougemont, spoke the
words of an Eros-centered theology, and it was through this "heresy"
that a European vocabulary of mysticism flourished and that Western
literature took on a new direction.

Bringing together historical, religious, philosophical, and cultural
dimensions, the author traces the evolution of Western romantic love
from its literary beginnings as an awe-inspiring secret to its
commercialization in the cinema. He seeks to restore the myth of love
to its original integrity and concludes with a philosophical
perspective on modern marriage.



On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nah, doc's hardons in IV are not an attraction to death in IV....not even close.....
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> Sex is life in IV....pervasive with Doc.....it is fucking on the beach before the paving stones.
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> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Playlist
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 8:25 AM
>> Charlie loved that white album.
>> Reminds me that the hardon, although a
>> natural reaction to a sexual attraction, is an un-natural
>> attraction
>> to Death in Pynchon's fictions. He keeps this up in IV.
>> And, even
>> these professional men, under all that talk of business and
>> money, and
>> cool and groovy, are just "big city editions of that dreamy
>> fatality."
>> VL.299
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