V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before

[Mark Kohut]

Picking up on this and your earlier post I suggest that TRP

had notions like these in mind:  sex is a wonderful human connection....there
should be more of it pervading the society................

But in the "tradition' of Civilization and Its Discontents, and Weber, and 
Marcuse
the work that builds civilization represses the id.


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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 1:44:35 PM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely 
before

> the author not-quite-but-almost nudging the characters away from in
> the general direction of steady work and wedded bliss as in V.
>

for instance, what does he do with the frabjous erection?

he covers it with the classified section of the Times!  with which he
has, just one page ago, been swatting flies!  (for insects - sensual
lust!)

a-and, how does he make the erection subside?

by thinking about work!  ought to get some, not suited for any

and what is the next juxtaposition of images?  Benny in his suede
jacket and the king of the subway!  Riding that dynamo, all
unconscious, in contradistinction to Benny, who's swatted up on the
employment situation, swatted down (or at least, waited out) his own
concupiscent connection to the mindless fleshly dynamo, and strides
forth purposefully (or at least, as purposefully as a schlemihl can!)



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