Eat your heart out, Deleuze and Guattari. ( )

this book is difficult to review -- a bunch of excerpts from other books, you have to read it to understand. Norman O Brown was a brilliant grumpy old man who probably singlehandedly changed the way a lot of people think about culture. definitely not standard issue mainstream stuff. ( )

An apocalyptic prose poem by a distinguished classics professor, who, after reading Freud and Blake, went on to become a countercultural icon in the 1960s. ( )