GRGR(30): The Golden Bitch

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> I don't quite get why Katje is having an American Racial Fantasy -- is
> this a European Racial Fantasy? I can't quite tell the difference.

Maybe because this is the kind Pynchon knows about. Just a wild guess.


> An intriguing line: "Pan was a lousy lover. Today, in public, they have
> no more than nervous glances for each other." -- it's not clear to me
> whether "they" is Katje and Pan, or Katje and the African sentry. Is the
> African sentry an avatar of Pan? -- he seems pretty quiet, for such a
> being.

Still Pan seems to me and the lines you quote represent of typical
Pynchonian effort to lighten things up--after the previous Pan/Katje's
more mythic coming together in the previous line--with a bit of American
boy/girl pop psychology of dating talk.

			P.