Queer?

[Tom Stanton]

LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm...I don't see Pynchon trying to come to terms with homosexuality
in GR at all. Even Gottfried is, at the end, a sacraficial lamb, and
sacraficed by his lover who embodies everything evil about them. IMHO
Pynchon is as sympathetic to homosexuality as he is to the sado-
masochists (sp?) and the other execesses he uses in the book. I once
met a professor who had read the book & when I asked him what he thought
of it he said "I'm not sure he needed 800 pages to tell the story of
a knighted Kraut fag shot off in the ass end of a rocket."