TRTR and TRP So I digress & "........., the beach"

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey writes:
undaunted by previous attempts to deconstruct the hippie mythos,
I wonder if the "outdoor" thing is the McGuffin - so many jobs are
indoors, and so many people are incompletely fulfilled, or even
completely unfulfilled, by their jobs

- that connection with the earth and sky, being out in the weather -
is that what is felt as missing in many cases?
Reich says YES!

A...And, related, Harold Bloom in another book of Shakespeare criticism ---this one
a scam of a book in one way but still a terrif idea we all could have had and done but
only Harold's name would get it into libraries, the book is a compilation of major historical
stuff on Shakespeare, on any play, like a Norton Critical edition but many more snippets
and excepts to cover the whole historical stage as it were,--except the present and recent past---
 along with many whole pieces but all in the public domain, nothing under copyright. Just the historical thing I was looking for at a library.
But I have digressed.
 
Bloom sez a Dutch psychoanalyst named J.H. Berg (I believe) "who has taught me much" 
places the very beginning of inwardness in the West at, drum roll, 1520, in a work of 
Martin Luther's in which he makes a big deal of such an "inner self"--and 'faith', of course. 
 



On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Charles Reich in "The Greening of America" highlights a two-page
> ad in the NYTimes Magazine for March 1969.
>
> Couple, majestic mountains and a beach...................
>
> He, who hates advertising as much as Gaddis, but since it is written 15
> years
> later, shows Gaddis's dissing as more prophetic, more prescient. sez
> that the appeal of this ad to the bored white-collar worker is
>
> The Hippie appeal.........that cannot be realized by workers caught in the
> System..
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