GRGR(4) kenosha kid

[DudiousMax at aol.com]

Yo Dude,
              Well there is a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff in GR.  
That's what makes it so, well, encyclopedic.  There's stuff about the Church, 
and about other writers, and about the intelligence community.  There's stuff 
about music and musicians, and there's stuff about politics and politicians.  
There is remarkably little missionary position, vanilla, ordinary sex, for a 
book this long.  I'd a thunk he'd a gotten into it a little bit.  It seems 
like he only wants to show how sex stuff runs off the rails.  There's also 
very little sex reported  in V. or Lot 49.  In Vineland men and women are 
masturbating a lot, and Frenesi (Frenzy) seems very sexual.  But there seems 
very little genuine affection between characters, in ways that are 
recognizable to me, in GR.  Leopold Bloom and Molly may not be faithful to 
each other, but they're affectionate IMHO.  I mean, are we shown Slothrop 
being violated, or is that merely a thought attributed to him, a fear?  We 
are shown the Brigadier's humiliation, Major Dwayne Marvey's surgical 
castration, Geli Tripping's ripping at her own nipples; but no observations 
of Roger and Jessica in intimate moments, being loving.  Why?  I wonder.
                                    Max
                                              Thinking out loud again.