GRGR(3): Some more questions...

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Here are a few more questions/ideas about GRGR(3) to divert all you
folks who don't want to talk about Pynchon's personal life.

1) (V36.10) "[...] though herself too young to know _that_, to know,
   like Pirate, what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are _really_
   about..."

Well, what _are_ they about?

2) (V36.35) "you've come and taken me off on your pirate ship. A girl of
   good family and the usual repressions. You've raped me. And I'm the
   Red Bitch of the High Seas..."

Why the "Red Bitch of the High Seas"? A throw-away rape fantasy to
boot...

3) (V37.35) "They're both of them peevish tonight, whippy as sheets of
   glass improperly annealed, ready to go smash at any indefinite touch
   in a whining matrix of stresses-"

Wow! Especially love the "whining matrix of stresses". Fall of the
crystal palace?

4) (V40.29) "old ladies who have a special place in their night-thoughts
   for the Fire Service _no please you're not going to use that great
   Hose on me ... oh no ... aren't you even going to take off those
   horrid rubber boots ... yesyes that's -"

There's another fantasy for you (to tie in with that other thread).

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_