[Sean Gruber]

In Living Machines maybe Jones's argument is that Grope-y had a bad conscience and blamed it on the Mahler house, the mental locus of his sins. Maybe in his mind this house stood for the whole civilized society that would judge his behavior as defective (correctly). So, in one stroke, he pisses on the old values and psuedo-expiates his sexual sin by building glass boxes where no one can do what he did--where everything is "laid bare."

From Jones's standpoint the root of Gropius's perversity seems to be his refusal to own up to his bad behavior. His guilt is what Gropius is simultaneously: projecting in the Freudian sense (on to a style of house, of all things), psuedo-expiating (by working to create a "new man" who also can't hide like he and his various betrayers did), and rejecting (by giving the middle finger to God, or to the architectural and other verities of the old civilization which Gropius had internalized).

So the pattern is, G fucks randomly, is fucked, feels badly, blames everything on the furniture, smashes the furniture and makes a wasteland to avenge himself on sense/order/God/logos (and his own cheating lovers), and then the brutalized residents of this wasteland (including older G) fuck randomly. Wikipedia says Gropius died of "an inflammation of the glands."

It's insanity but, as Jones would say, it all fits with the rejection of logos etc. In any case, E Mike sure puts the grope in Gropius, ha.