Sex & the Swastika

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> rj, why such a firm insistence that TRP couldn't possibly be referring to
> Hitler's dominatrix? In texts so obviously rich in literary and historical
> allusions, I really don't understand your reluctance to admit what, in the
> context of this novel, appears so completely obvious.  How do you answer
> the bigger question, which is Why do so many of Pynchon's character names
> lead to historical personages whose history intersects so significantly
> with the material, themes, and motifs that Pynchon deals with?  Just
> coincidence? Or what?
>

I'm really open to this idea, I see how this is quite
valuable, I'm not refusing to be convinced, only being
critical in a positive way. I have seen how this approach
opens the book to very interesting and much needed
discussions of Pynchon's method of writing and how he treats
the reader and politics and so on, but I must repeat, I
don't get the Geli Tripping allusion to Geli R. Willing to
be convinced, but skeptical at the moment.