Gottfried & Blicero

[Dave Monroe]

MichaelB wrote:

> Let's assume we are right that Pynchon the writer, in the text, is
> carelessly, joyfully tossing about events that to many readers seem
> homophobic, anti-gay, whatever.

Let's not, and say we didn't.  Not much of anything "careless" about
"Pynchon the writer," which is why one doubts that he'd be "tossing
about" such, er, "events," much less "joyfully" ...

>  If Pynchon the man, in society, were to say very carefully 'I am not
> in the least bit homophobic, I respect all people irregardless of their
> sexual "preferences"', then that attitude would contract the beyond
> good and evil Dance of his written words, and he would fail in
> Nietzsche's sense to be, yes, an ubermensh.  But if Pynchon, laughing
> joyously at the nothingness he is faced with As society, speaks in the
> same 'tone' of his texts, then he has succeeded in revaluating existing
> values--that, in this example, gay men should not necessarily be
> treated with equal benevolensce and care as straight men.  What could
> it possibly matter otherwise...? --What I've written hear is Nietzsche

Think "what [you've] written hear" (sic) might well reflect A Certain
(Mis)Reading thereof.  Now I can see why some here might have thought I
was a little bit rough on those Nazis ...