Hemingway and Pynchon

[Derek C. Maus]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Paul Mackin wrote:

> But forheavensake Catherine is frigging perfect up to and including the
> fact she dies and leaves Frederic with a perfect love to forever
> contemplate. 

Wellllllll...there is that little problem of her being nucking futs when
they meet...

Also, remember "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" in which the
male ego figures are pretty severely savaged by Margot when she
essentially tells her husband off because he thinks he's a big man now
that he's blasted a lion to bits with what's essentially a small
howitzer. I know some people read that story as the "castrating
bitch" type, but it seems to me that Hemingway is at least mocking some of
the hyper-masculine impulse.

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