queerness

Greg Montalbano Greg.Montalbano at ucop.edu
Mon Nov 25 11:05:53 CST 1996


But isn't this exactly the kind of repressed/repressive personality he's
describing and using in the form of Brock Vond in VINELAND?  Mayhap he
needed twenty years or so to grow into his new vision (like many of us from
the sixties);  or maybe we're reading his take on homosexuals in GR a bit
too severely.
~~Greg


At 04:49 PM 11/24/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Let's not forget that the Nazis killed many homosexuals; J. Edgar H. 
>investigated "faggots." It's these repressed or secret (homo)sexuals, 
>Them or Their tools who repress others that Pynchon has a hard time 
>with.
>
~~Greg




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