v. and orlando

Christine Karatnytsky christinekaratnytsky at juno.com
Thu Jul 13 09:51:07 CDT 2000


Dave Monroe gives wise advice.  Seconded here.

Quoth he:

>I'd certainly shy away from claims of anything being "essentially,"
"about" or otherwise, the "same"
>thing, not in the least Orlando and V., Woolf's novel foregrounding far
more than Pynchon's issues of >gender 'n' sexuality (though I've been
much intrigued of late by that issue of gender in, the gender of, V.),
>but that schematic of a Protean figure perhaps figuring history, now
that's an interesting an applicable >notion, I think.  

I agree.  Mythic underpinnings and paradigms.  Very important to P.


ck
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