JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids

[Dave Monroe]

I share your reticence to resort to bibliography, esp. in the case of
Pynchon, about whom virtually all such "bibliography" seems apocryphal, at
best.  On the other hand, in re: children in Pynchon, well, there are
undeniably a few cases--Bianca. most notably--where adolescent (if even)
girls are, indeed, sexualized.  Just as there is the shining counterexample
of Vineland's Prairie.  My mistake, perhaps, was to take such instances
Pynchon's texts as corroborating Siegel's (or his ex-wife's, perhaps)
allegations (?).

Doug Millison wrote:

> Dave Monroe used JS as a reference for Pynchon biographical material
> -- I'll chime in as usual and suggest that you  take what JS has to
> say with a whole salt shaker full of salt, JS has a large axe to
> grind, and he has ground it exceedingly sharp in his ongoing campaign
> to insult TRP.
>
> Re Pynchon's "extraordinary affection for adolescent girls", I like
> to keep a sharp distinction between an author's personal likes and
> dislikes, habits, foibles, & etc. and the content of the author's
> books.
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