Difficulty of TRP (was GIANT ADENOID for lease)

[Kyburz at asu.edu]

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 LBernier at tribune.com wrote:

>      
>      Ted a dit:
>      
>      This is not Pynchon, but an acquaintance who is a would-be 
>      female journalist of the feminist persuasion told me that 
>      she'd rather read Gloria Steinem than Camille Paglia, 
>      because CP uses "words she doesn't understand".
>      
>      So there!
>      
> Gee, what she's never heard the word p-penis?!?
> 
> Seriously, I think women have a much harder time with Pynchon
> than men.  There's a lack of seriousness in a lot of his writing that is
> antithical (sp?) to "good" writing theory, more so to "women's" writing
> and especially to "WOMYN'S" writing.  You've got all the themes you see in
> a lot of modern day books - hints of incest, child sexual exploitation, 
> homosexuality, violence, but I think a lot of people, especially in these
> neo-puritan days, find the WAY it deals with those topics pretty darn
> offensive.  If you don't convey the proper dourness and disapproval of
> behaviour outside the currently defined model for properness, 7 kinds of 
> hell will come down on your head.
> 
> So I don't know what that makes us gals on the list who love Pynchon.  
> I guess we'll never get to be a part of the feminist elite! (Drat!)
> 
> Jean
> 
No offense, Jean, a-and I usually agree with you on a lot of fronts, but
URRRGGHggggghhhhhh.  There, I feel better.


Bonnie L. Kyburz
Instructor, English dept.
Arizona State University
(602) 965-7756