IV Ch 17 Notes

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 17:40:56 CST 2009


guess you had to be there ;)

rich

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:02 AM, rich wrote:
>
>> 305
>> Shasta says all the women around Mickey loved the brutal way he
>> treated them, he made them invisible, played rough, and they loved it.
>> any comments on that? Has sex been so degraded in the post love-in era
>> that its become so far flung from any sort of love, affection, caring?
>> the following S&M sham seems to confirm just that. I found much of the
>> sexual overtones of this chapter very troubling, soulless, and very
>> sad.
>
> Then you should check out Gravity's Rainbow for even more troubling,
> soulless, and very sad sex. Of course, the early seventies were kinda kinky
> . . .
>



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