Pynchon/Roth/Bellow/Updike on the 1960s

[David Morris]

Yes, sort of.  Remember the laboratory rats that do an extended Busby
Berkeley dance about leaving their cages?  One of their messages is
"If only man could forget that he is going to die!"  It's sort of a
"living in the now" kind of thing, sort of Buddhist consciousness.
Not that I know what that really means.

But GR is a lot about N.O. Brown's take on Freud, death-wish, reality
principle (denied gratification), etc.  And Slothrop's transcendence
is an escape from typical human consciousness.

David Morris

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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