GRGR(3): Some more questions...

[Jules Siegel]

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?
> 
> 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_

Hah-HAH! You can't escape Pynchon Confidential. Here's a great personal
nugget: I think Chrissie told me once that she and Pynchon made this
skit up together. She said they used to dress up in costumes like kids
and act out little erotic playlets like this.


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