GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Doug Millison]

Regarding adults having sex with or otherwise abusing children in Pynchon's
novels, an article that looks like (I haven't read it all yet) a good place
to start thinking seriously about the issue is "A Child Roaming the Night:
Oedipa's Dead Issue in _The Crying of Lot 49_" by M. W. Rohland in the
current issue of _Pynchon Notes_ (40-41):

"Though the importance of the 'betrayal, especially of children  by
parents' in Pynchon has been recognized, the central role of the afflicted
family in Pynchon generally has been little studied.That is surprising,
since abusive or negligent parents and their children appear both centrally
and peripherally in all the novels [...]"

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