Queer?

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Matt comments:
"I kept on thinking of _Rio Bravo_, probably the                  
most homoerotic (unintentionally or not), Western I've ever seen (Remember
John Wayne ignoring the advances of Angie Dickinson, telling her he'd
rather get back to the boys [Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin] in the jail; John
Wayne's discussion with Ricky Nelson on the importance of packing a big
gun!)."

Not a bad citation, but have you seen RED RIVER?  Check out the debate between
Montgomery Clift (an even more problematic cowboy than Ricky Nelson) and
John Ireland (as "Cherry Valance") over the merits of "a gun, a woman, and
a Swiss watch--ever had a Swiss watch?"


I do think Pynchon is *trying* to come to terms with homosexuality at points
in GR, but doesn't really know how to deal with it.  There are moments that
you see hints of understanding and others when he resorts to stereotypes even
while he lampoons such stereotyping.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)