Rape & Agape by spherical predominance and a devine thrusting on

[alice wellintown]

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star! My
father compounded with my mother under the
dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa
major; so that it follows, I am rough and
lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
had the maidenliest star in the firmament
twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--


In Book VII, Chapter 5, "Eros Rescued by Agape", Rougemont doesn't
discuss Rape in Shakespeare or Pynchon or even Flannery O'connor
(Pynchon and O'Connor have more in common than Pynchon and Morrison),
but he does exaplain, in plain words, Oh Rocks, how and why rape makes
a rock of women.