Word: counterpoint
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Subplots involving Parnell Grimes, the director of Mercury’s funeral home, also compromise the harmony of the tale. The necrophiliac undertaker and his wife, who dies a little death for him at orgasm, may serve as a counterpoint to Finus and Birdie’s unfulfilled sexualities—even the dead can copulate, but they can’t. Still, the new characters feel sensationally extraneous...
Andrew Marshall is the author of The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Counterpoint...
...attack on the spiritual view—so why can’t we at least have someone define and defend the worldview that he attacks?” I thought about that for two or three years and didn’t know who would be a good counterpoint to Freud, because he’s a pretty formidable intellect...
...fast-forward to when I was thinking about finding a counterpoint to Freud. I thought of Lewis and I started reading his works for the first time quite seriously. And much to my surprise, I found that there was a striking parallelism—Freud raises a question and Lewis attempts to answer it. And I realized as I got to know more about Lewis that Lewis was in literary criticism, and at that time in Europe, Freud’s concepts were permeating the universities and providing literary critics with new tools to use in understanding human behavior...
...Placed next to the appalling ego circuses of Eastern gurus such as Sai Baba or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the goings-on at Zen Center were pretty tame fare. But the real lure of Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint; 385 pages) isn't the abuses and failings it chronicles, so much as the fact that they happened in the ever-elusive, and ever-alluring, world of Zen. Of all the Far Eastern spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always...