Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[Rich]

Maybe the marquis de sod is just a throwaway joke. Writers sometimes get more credit than they earned. 


On Sep 11, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

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> how we do go on!  "such larks"
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> but i mean, the ripples from the skipping stone...
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> plink
> Brecht
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> plonk
> the Marseillaise
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> plunk
> the Marquis de Sod
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> these are brought in lightly, painlessly, humorously but the literal "grounding" of the social movement, like parents grounding a child, but also 'going to ground' like a fox on the run, which is sort of what zoyd is doing, which again is a further development of what the marquis did in leaving dramaturgy for lawn service - going to ground - looking for cover, for a liveable rhizome
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> a-and the imposition of the sadistic domination on the grass, in his ads (in full costume, whipping the grass, and the grass saying "we love eet") - parallels the apparent mass approbation depicted around the Reagan Administration, eg
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> and he pulls in even the marseillaise,  like the original California landscape so heedlessly sodded over, in this celebration of dominion over nature 
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> but that isn't even half of what's in the passage!
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> “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
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