Thanks, Mark

[Mark Kohut]

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:36 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> The exact quote is “Every woman adores a fascist,…” same meaning, perhaps
> more emphatic but perhaps also more fickle. adore: latin root- to speak
> (orare’) to (ad)  also implies to pray to, to chant the name of, to worship
>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2021, at 10:33 PM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sylvia Plath? Hadn’t run across that poem before. I know, I know, where
> > have I been? So sue me for Pollyannatude, I’d rather read jollier stuff
> > most of the time! But I did stumble into a poetry reading a few years ago
> > where a young woman was expressing similar sentiments towards her own
> > father at greater length and with great vehemence. So that’s another data
> > point.
> >
> > I hadn’t remembered Maxine getting involved with Slagiatt either workwise
> > or lovewise. Just saw the unraveling of the anagram somewhere (“seemed
> like
> > a good idea at the time”) and that’s what chose to stick, memorywise.
> >
> >
> > Mark Kohut wrote:
> >
> > Pynchon has this 'insight' into certain kinds of women or else this
> 'slur'
> > against women in general:
> >
> > They like, often against themselves, 'strong', tough, insensitive (to
> > almost be euphemistic) men, who might
> > also be described as arrogant, authoritarian men generalized with that
> > infamous line from Sylvia Plath: Every woman
> > loves a fascist.
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