AtD translation: the irregular of spirit

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah...there's the text and there's getting high with the text....

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:48 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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