M & D Read

[Mark Kohut]

All true but, for the historical among us, the very idea
seems to have had no currency (from searching in ALL THE BOOKS
Google has ever put up online; all of the now public domain books
from Gutenberg on; all of the works of history about the past; all
of the concurrent in their times books.)


Related but different: PTSD was alluded to in this Read as shorthand
for trauma experienced (by Mason?). That works as an anachronous way
of describing trauma but PTSD as Post-traumatic-stress-disorder
 was first named around 1955 and became prominent in these United States
only after the Vietnam war.

Before then, it had other names; shell-shock perhaps the leading name.



On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:45 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pretty 'radical' idea for the time, yes?  Tougher turn of the screw on
>> the idea that marriage is > institutionalized prostitution.
>
> Mason and Dixon would know all about this radical idea; especially
> Dixon because as Quaker his is the first Christian church to give
> public forum to women who take full advantage of it, allying
> themselves with other oppressed groups, such as, naturally, the
> enslaved and indentured, and prostitutes.    As learned men it would
> be impossible for our boys to avoid this radical idea. Of course, in
> Pynchon's mad comedy, all things are ampersanded, so tht folly and
> hypocrisy abound.
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