Rilke & Pynchon? & N.O. Brown? & AtD...

[Mark Kohut]

"Rilke's workman was even more specific. Childhood, he wrote, was a suitable model, a time when
sensual ecstasy radiates throughout the entire body rather than being concentrated in one place. It should
be recaptured, for men and women can be freed only to encompass the invisible if they can overcome their
single focus on the genitals and try to sense again the totality of loving, "that indescribable happiness that awakens
us in one place in the midst of the tissue of fruit of a closed embrace,....distributed namelessly throughout the
entire body, "......p.495
 
Anyone but me reminded, not only of Brown's Life Against Death, which we are pretty sure influenced GR
but with the above, Cyprian, in that epiphany he has about feeling a kind of body-wide orgasm? Love suffusing him.
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