Related to P, very tangentially (for Alice)

[Mark Kohut]

Tony Tanner, as has been remarked, was an early appreciator--and
understander of TRP's work (amidst the bafflement of P.'s originality).....

He was, maybe, the first to say P was indebted to The Recognitons, he was sure,
just to add another prolegomenon bit to this...which is not why I posted 
however-------

But it is to say that in his---TT's---brilliant essay on Coriolanus, in TT's 
late, last book----Coriolanus, the angry, rigid, warrior-king who never learned 
how to BE 

in peacetime, all sword, no silk, as S. puts it with more elaborate genius, 
Tanner 

observes that this martial-minded man is compared to a beast, a machine AND, 
more than a 

few times, he is called a 'thing"......Tony notices...

This ob seems new by Tanner and I cannot help feel his perception of the 
inanimate--the deathly things---was sharpened by knowing V. so well------(and 
other 

American writers, of course, like Mailer, Vonnegut, Purdy about whom he wrote) .
 
Who knows,  but what's a meta-observation for?, as Browning sorta said....