The Dark Thing

[Marlene McMullen]

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From: 	Sojourner[SMTP:sojourner at vt.edu]
Sent: 	Monday, September 15, 1997 5:48 AM
To: 	pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: 	Re: *MD/GR



The availability of women sexually has always been and still is
a commodity. 

Someone on this list recommended ARC d'X by Steve Erickson before this gender discussion arose [is arose] amongst us...I am enjoying it immensely, and offer the following quote:

"When the blood stopped, after he'd taken her many times over the weeks that followed, he didn't wash her with the rags anymore. It was the hemorrhaging of his conscience to which Thomas tended.  If he couldn't quite forgive the way he fucked her, he accepted it as the dark thing that allowed him otherwise to be good."

[p.26., Owl Books version]