GRGR(11): TRP gay?

John Boylan AP201165 at BROWNVM.brown.edu
Tue Feb 25 16:10:46 CST 1997


Andrew Dinn asks:

>Pynchon is gay?

To which I reply: One can deduce from GR that TRP 1) possesses a basic
skill of the competent novelist -- writing from inside his characters
(including his homosexual ones), and 2) has read Burroughs and Genet.
Any other inferrence drawn is, I think, an overreaching one.

  More praises to heap upon Pynchon's praise-heaped head, then, that
in 1973 especially, a (presumably) straight novelist would have the
daring to write from within a homoerotic orientation.



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