vector of desire M&D random

[Joseph Tracy]

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 pg 96 Vector of desire. An astronomy term? Lacan? Other reader's thoughts, insights. 

CH 10 CherryCoke is much more interesting to me this time around. His quote fom his unpublished Sermons is rather lovely, comparing our sense of the Divine to the earth’s sense of relation to the sun. Very Gaia hypothesis kind of thing. 
 We see that the adult component of the listeners coming to hear Ccoke is growing. He is getting a bit of flak from them. Is P describing a process where he, in a satiric mode, champions the marginal, the colonized, and the youn upstarts of his generation like Richard Farina who have questioned the wars and the demonization of Cuba , drawing them and the literary avant garde first as an audience, and then attracts those who want to modify the radical aspects of his satire? Because Ccoke is also a satirist, an irreverent reverend feeding salacious stories of real life to the young, but also critiquing Clairol culture, and Calvinism and connecting it to racial abuse among many other humorous cultural obs.  

Not many people joining in the M&D  discussion. Everyone is busy and it is a big, cumbersome book. Let’s make sure this is a safe place for newbies, and disagreement.  The structure is loose but  just join in and see what happens. 


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