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...historical perspective to lend the advent of Consciousness III sensibility a sense of Marxian inevitability is a failure. Perhaps this is because, while he pretends to exhaustive analysis, he deliberately ignores the one essential issue involved. The success or failure of a return to the Garden of Eden -even with Adam and Eve played by bright and well-favored Yale men and their dates-will depend not on the serpent state but upon human nature. Reich's simple assumption-borrowed unexamined from the Romantic movement-that man is inherently good until corrupted by society is simply a disastrous philosophical...
...collage that he made for Agnete Lind, the child of Louise Lind, one of his early unrequited loves, a snake shares the page with one of Andersen's own book covers, a sketch of an audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became the subject of another image, "Art and the Critic"-a fop peers through a lorgnette at a mocking head faceted with many small variants...
...does not solve the problem, and meantime those maimed expressions which are allowed are infected with a secret misery and falseness." Nearly 31 centuries later, the Merry Mount case no longer seems so open and shut. Not only could contemporary man use a Maypole in his blighted Garden of Eden, but he is just beginning to realize the damage caused by not having one. Consider those maimed excuses for Merry Mount that have come to serve, ever so ineptly, as its substitute. On New Year's Eve (Oh, God! A year older and what have we accomplished?) the children...
Whether or not it is a womb, it is a warm sanctuary from a cold external world. Two things tend to happen to the people in the room: expulsion or intrusion. Expulsion, in the larger sense, means being thrown out of Eden, out of a particular role, out of life. Intrusion means a violation of person and mind, a destruction of being...
Robert Flynn is one of those theologian-novelists who back their characters up against a dead-end wall and demand their credo or their life. In his latest little parable, Flynn proves he could turn even the Garden of Eden into one of his cul-de-sacs...