M & D on the road again

[Mark Kohut]

Smoak did a post or two back in the day about Mason and
fatherhood and the olde country (England). it was interesting
and worth exploring and elaborating on but stuff happens.

I cannot find it easily and every day is a new white whale, right,
so To the discussion anew.

Fact: We know TRP was deeply influenced by N. O. Brown's Life
Against Death in his world vision, esp for Gravity's Rainbow. Major
essay which 'proves' and others too allude.

Speculation: A writer like TRP would SURELY have also read Brown's
other less famous work, such as Love's Body, his second, right?

In this one Brown uses the lens of Freud (and social historians,
anthropologists)
to read some English history and talk about Politics thru Plato, Aristotle
and
a few others. ...

"a meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace
of a
natural, instinctive innocence"......
                -- a phrase I 'buy into' as a major part of TRP's vision,
your milage may vary.

More posts to follow as I read the book but first THIS ONE as almost a
direct gloss
on parts of Gravity's Rainbow, and/or a bit of Lot 49 as well?

"Without an understanding of the seamy side of sexuality there is no
understanding of
politics"-------Love's Body, p. 11.