The WreckIgnitions Read: An ape of God

[Mark Kohut]

 A family which has an ape amongst it. Yes, he's gotta be a comic
writer. I would argue that to have an ape as part of this minister's family,
what with Aunt May, all hard Puritan repression and said minister who cannot
get Americans to believe in original sin is a fine way to state fictionally that
we are (also) animals, despite any spirtual striving; we are instinct, id, wild,
uncivilized, spontaneous, unrepressed as we live under Aunt May's life-denying
strictures.......[ape as wild 'man' is almost a trope in fiction. Recent new one
supposedly good. I love Nabokov's image re Humbert in the faux foreword: 
Humbert reminds of an ape who has learned to draw---and draws the bars
of his cage! This is his story] 

And while waiting for a bus in the rain today, getting not as wet as an ape, I
remembered another writer I read way back, Wyndham Lewis, another savage
satirist of the literary life (in England) especially. I read The Revenge for 
Love
which certainly undercut certain 'radical movement" [communism in the 30s,]
people and ideas.........but perhaps his most famous is called The Apes of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apes_of_God

Gaddis gadda have read him and may be alluding to this novel with that barbary
ape?