Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age, a Concerto for a One-man Band, Six Arias for Soap Operas, Fugues, Anthems & BarrelhouseWylie, Philip
Philosophy
Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age, a Concerto for a One-man Band, Six Arias for Soap Operas, Fugues, Anthems & Barrelhouse
Wylie, Philip
Authors -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Patients -- Fiction; Philosophy -- Fiction
Must it not be assumed that blah people are happy and blah people
are given to such excursions, wherefore blah per centum of the
excursionists are happy?
Certainly.
But Yvonne?
What is she?
Sir Psychologist, Lord Hack, Keeper of the Happy Ending, can you not
also hypothesize a hundred different valid denouements?
Certainly.
When the poor, unknown child returns, what Weltschmerz may not seize
hold upon her? What nostalgia? What fantasy or recollections?
What esoteric envies? What odd curiosities? What cooling after the
confidences? What illogical new distastes? What unexpected spousely
piques? What dither? What clandestine or common experiment with all
what unsweet ensuite?
Never congratulate the Fates, emir;
it makes them self-conscious ... undependable.
A point to remember should you ever set down a hundred hours of
pseudo-autobiography:
_Lessons in Light Lycanthropy_: seven essays by Philip Gordon
Prismaggot.
Now came thunder, like sounds in the intestines of distant elephant
herds; now, my curtain rose as eerily as a medium's table and flopped
back to lank alignment with the wall.
I saw the point:
In the quest for the woman-in-skirts, some of us fail to notice that
the woman-within may be partly and helplessly a perverse wench,
attesting by default to all the oversights of her masculine lord: us.
It was a remarkable discovery and explained occasional tendencies of
numbers of my gentlemen companions.
Given another five years, caliph, and you could resolve this
situation--this exotic act of the inner She who rules whatever crannies
her master shuns in conscious male conceit.
If you happen to be the kind of person who, out of mere idleness, or
from scientific motive, or in our poor common cause, is willing to
trephine his own soul for a better look, you will find such dances
going on there, such images and integers of the complicated flesh.
If you announce the results, however, you are liable to go to Hecate.
Hecate County, I mean.
Unless you do so, that is, in plain wrapper and with a Ph.D. Cf.:
"The inner natures of all men and women partake of the natures of the
opposite sex--a psychological phenomenon in some forms openly expressed
by modern society (O moms, O Mummers!), but in other forms suppressed
with the full force of public opinion. What public opinion suppresses,
the individual endeavors to conceal both from himself and from society.
Nevertheless, were the individual _not_ equipped with the psychological
elements of the opposite sex, comprehension and sympathy between the
two would be impossible. And this 'feminine' quality of a man--for
example--may even project on real women, in inverted form, those
universal, adolescent feelings toward his own sex which the conscious
adult man repudiates. Hence, as Cadwallader, Pratt and Razzle say, in
their lucid monograph--"
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