John Hamill's S&M

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

"Looking Back on Sodom: Sixties Sadomasochism in Gravity's
Rainbow" by John Hamill, Critique, Fall 1999, Vol.41, No1

This article is familiar to a few list members and is being
discussed.  Be careful. Hamill makes several typical
mistakes. First, note that he defines the S&M in terms of
Baudrillard, Deleuze, Girard, and then says Pynchon goes
beyond these etc. implying that the triangulation and so
forth can be applied and expanded to account for Pynchon's
characters and their relationships to the system. Hamill has
got it wrong from the get-go because like so many academics
he wants to include the above referenced texts. Without them
his argument would only make a little sense based on a
reading of GR and Pynchon.