Pynch and homosexuals

[Henry Musikar]

Pynch's main characters are white hetero men. He is a white hetero 
(not Herero) man. I think an author is damned if trying to "get 
behind" a character that is strikingly not them, and damned if they 
don't. If Pynchon had a gay, black person as a main character, 
wouldn't he be open to a whole lotta criticism if he lampooned that 
character, or wouldn't he be considered sanctimonious if he didn't. 
"Who does this white, intellectual, patrician, hetero man think he 
is? He's got us all wrong. If he thinks that we're all..."

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
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