Polymorphous Perversity, 2nd try

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Sorry for the mis-post.  Here's what I meant to say:

Andrew comments:
"I cannot understand how anyone can get switched on by that part of the
Pudding scene but other stuff yes. And yes also, 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."


And we can anticipate discussion of the "how I came to love The People" section
toward the end of GR.

Although they apparently derive from different roots, "luxury" once had the
meaning of "lechery" as well.  Gives a new twist to the concept of the
Affluent (Effluent?) Society.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)