AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[David Morris]

Such a read instantly removes all the humor and convoluted and perverse
imagery of the text, so, umm, I think Michael needs to take another hit off
that doobie.

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:25 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I was definitely reading it as though the statue was being frequented
> rather than the park, but that is not necessarily true, so maybe Michael
> has a better take on this.The analogy should apply to Khautsch’s current
> status, which is clearly being demeaned.
>
> > On Feb 4, 2022, at 1:11 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Parks frequented by the irregular of spirit -
> >
> > What this makes me think of is the memoirs of Kenneth Rexroth and how he
> > and many other budding anarchists etc would frequent public parks.
> >
> > A lot of places would have literal soapbox speakers animadverting on
> their
> > political theories, autodidacts sharing quaint and curious lore.
> >
> > No tv back then.
> >
> > I’m pretty sure somewhere in Saul Bellow’s books there also are
> > descriptions of public orators in parks speaking from the sheer desire to
> > speak, to orate, to rabblerouse.
> >
> > Chicago is the setting for these parks in both Rexroth and Bellow - a
> > continuation of anarchist contingent Lew Basnight observed?
> >
> > These folks I think could easily be among those whom Pynchon would call
> > “irregular of spirit”
> >
> > Not “establishment” speakers, not think tankers or professors or
> > politicians - thus, “irregular”
> >
> > Public parks often have statues that most everybody ignores.
> >
> > Thankfully here a lot of the worst ones, like those of our US Confederate
> > creeps, as bad as Khäutsch, are coming down.
> >
> > But also in general, people who frequent public parks are likely to be
> > “irregular” in terms of less monied, less connected, more eccentric -
> > aren’t they? And the places around statues especially, because there
> might
> > be a good patch of grass to set up your soapbox on?
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