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bridgeofdreams commented on the word thanatopsian
1929 usage by Will Cuppy in a book review referred to:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6qfUm28ie4IC&lpg=PA90&ots=uU6V1GMFWv&dq=thanatopsian&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q=thanatopsian&f=false
"cally thanatopsian. It is not the virus of morbidity they suffer from but a metaphysically alienated state. It is as if they had already surrendered to ..."
* The Lost Generation of College Youth
* Charles I. Glicksberg
* The Journal of Higher Education
Vol. 28, No. 5 (May, 1957), pp. 257-264+294
(article consists of 9 pages)
* Published by: Ohio State University Press
* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978740
Andre Chabot quoted referring to "thanatopsian eroticism" in
Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide
By Joseph W. Slade
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaGTZySRzeYC&lpg=PA540&ots=_omp3ZPXmK&dq=thanatopsian&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q=thanatopsian&f=false
October 17, 2007 entry at http://daddyzine.typepad.com/ (by Garrett Scott) "But rarely have I met with unqualified success when I've attempted to assuage my misery by shifting the thanatopsian burden onto the shoulders of a young child, so likely I will simply continue my ad hoc approach to inuring her to the manifold sucker punches of grief."
September 18, 2010