[Ads-l] Quote: Money is like muck, which spred abroad, doth good; but hoarded and heaped up, is like a stinking Dunghill

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 6, 2016, at 12:16 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
> 
> Giving new insight to the phrase "filthy lucre."
> Dave Hause

Right; see also Norman O. Brown's "Studies in Anality" in his _Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History_ (1959), on the "excremental vision" connecting lucre to the Protestant ethic (back to Luther's revelations on the privy):

"The Devil is a middle term connecting Protestantism and anality.  As against the neo-Freudians, anality means real bodily anality…As against the orthodox Freudians, the pathogenic factor in anality is not real bodily toilet training, but peculiar fantasies (the Devil) connected with the anal zone.  Furthermore, these fantasies are not private or individual products, but exist as social projections into the world of culture.  It follows that the precipitating factor in a psychological upheaval such as the Protestant Reformation is not any change in toilet-training patterns, but an irruption of fresh material from deeper strata of the unconscious made possible by a large-scale transformation in the structure of the projective system (the culture).  The dynamic of history is the slow return of the repressed." (_Life Against Death_, p. 230)

Money as muck indeed.  Spread it around!

There's also a great poem by Auden, "The geography of the house".  Check it out:  
http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/wh-auden/the-geography-of-the-house/

(Disclaimer: Norman O. Brown, who put the anal back in psychoanalysis, was one of my undergraduate mentors.) 

LH

> -----Original Message----- From: ADSGarson O'Toole
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> Subject: Re: Quote: Money is like muck, which spred abroad, doth good; but hoarded and heaped up, is like a stinking Dunghill
> Thanks to Bonnie for her great help with the EEBO database. The QI
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> Riches Are Like Muck Which Stinks in a Heap But Spread Abroad Makes
> the Earth Fruitful
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__quoteinvestigator.com_2016_02_05_muck_&d=AwICAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=pknKRdZtTKE4xYP47Y1vq7AFkyoHOwPiC48zjNkbRFU&s=t_w0s2kn7Oxh4SsfWgjxcYfjPX9JGDIOt9K5Q2-ym58&e= 
> Garson
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:28 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wealth redistribution is a perennial topic of political debate. I
>> recently received a request to explore the provenance of the following
>> expression:
>> 
>> [Begin excerpt]
>> Money is like manure.  If you spread it around, it does a lot of good,
>> but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
>> [End excerpt]
>> 
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