[lit-ideas] Pansies Grow Wild in Bordighera

Geary was possibly the first one to note that Levi-Strauss _was_ dead ("He  
wasn't wearing his Levis", he writes, punning on the well-known metastasis, 
 "Levi-Strauss"). 
 
When Levi-Strauss published his "La pensee sauvage", he was unamused when  
the English translator suggested a dull title. "Surely there's a pun on 
'wild  pansy' here." For homosexuals SHOULD grow wild. 
 
The problem with Levi-Strauss, I keep saying, is the uncle. He was from a  
Jewish family in Belgium, and his father was a painter. He married THREE 
times  (marriage as women trading). He only had masculine offspring. All this 
possibly  goes to refute McEvoy ("His claim to fame is to have a postpunk 
band named after  one of his work. No small deal"). 

For one, "Critique of Pure Reason" is hitting in Bordighera!
 
J. L. Speranza, 
  The Swimming Pool Library, Villa Speranza,  Bordighera

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