Harper Valley PTA Report

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     Quoth Andrew re getting turned on by the naughty bits in GR:
     
     [snip]
     
     >Pynchon intends to do this to us. Remember Cructhfield making it 
     >with everything except that rattlesnake then `lately he's been 
     >getting interested in [it] too [...]  fangs just tickling the 
     >foreskin [...]'. The slide into the `perverse' is so casual and 
     >subtle you can easily go fall down along with it. And we are so use 
     >to indulging ourselves in our 1st world luxury that we almost want 
     >to fall down that slide. Yes, we are already perverted, not by sex 
     >but by luxury.
     
     Hmm, "1st world luxury."  So, this is another device that Pynchon uses 
      to make us reexamine our capitalist, supremacist tendencies?
     
     Chris