what's wrong with being pc?

[Paul Murphy]

Matt writes:

>If you want, I'd be more than happy to debate whether this position
>constitutes "moral relativism", but I think it would probably be much
>more beneficial to discuss Pynchon while attempting to avoid such
>blithely ignorant comments such as Jules' re: African women.

I cleaned out my mailbox so I don't have Jules Siegel's original remarks in
front of me, but at the time they struck me simply as awkwardly stated and
requiring further clarification. The point I remember him trying to make,
getting back to Pynchon, is that V. is an 'erotic' novel, but that the
erotic dimension is curiously absent in the Mondaugen chapter, perhaps due
to TRP's acculturated inability to describe the Hereros, erotically,
physically, or otherwise. Instead of taking up this point (which I think is
a valid one for further discussion and debate), we get a lot of ad hominem
posturing.

Cheers,
Paul

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