VLVL (13) - Cesare Lombroso

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 07:28:11 CDT 2009


Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Ever since Laura said that I've been kind of thinking along the lines of
> Reagan and the "evil empire."    Reagan was, to some,  very charismatic and
> pretty good looking (for an older gent with Grecian Formula hair)  - he had
> the Mr. Superman body in his younger days.    I think Frenesi going for that
> ideal,  that personna,  is  symbolic of America doing it.   All that fascism
> - it looks so good,  strong,  manly.
>

de gustibus...

b-but anyway...
what do you think about the angel-clipped-wing shoulder blades in the
moonlight of Frenesi, and then the dreams of Brock of being forced to
copulate with women who descended at an angle from above?

not to mention the squelched female persona?  is this Jung or does
Freud have that animus/anima thing as well?


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