Kids

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> Terrance says, "Not only are children (and almost everyone else in GR,
> including TS) not innocent, they all want to be victims. Victims of
> sodomy, the whip, rape,  and most of the victims are victimizers too,
> yes, even TS."  I haven't gone through the novel to double-check
> this, but if it's true, I'd argue that Pynchon presents the children
> in this way as an indictment of the society that shapes them.
> Throughout his canon, he shows a high degree of sensitivity to the
> way society and adults abuse and destroy children.  If "they all want
> to be victims" it's only because they have learned to want nothing
> else.


It's true, and I agree with your statement above, as you
probably know already.