Kids

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jun 23 07:52:52 CDT 2000


KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> Pynchon I think is far away from this kind of "independent realism". But in
> some way he has got his own kind of simplification. Children are always
> innocent even if they are cruel in Pynchon's work; they are always victims.
> Look at Prairie in "Vineland"! Can't it be that this is also a kind of
> "social kitsch"?

See GR.736

No one is an innocent, not even children. S&M, we define
each other, abuse me exalt me, we define each other.



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