GRGR(3): Some more questions...

[David Nevin Friedman]

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Murthy Yenamandra wrote:

> 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?
Hmmm...Dancing in the Dark always seemed to be about sex, as are all of
Bruce Sprinsteen's other songs...unless it's a different "Dancing in the
Dark..."


> 
> 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_
>