JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids

[rwan]

I'd just like to point out that the word is predilection as opposed to
predeliction, a preference as opposed to a predisposition to violate the
law, e.g. commit a "delict".

richard


----- Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids


>
>
> Siegel's March 1977 Playboy article is surprisingly well-written and one
of
> the only substantial pieces of first-hand biographical material on Pynchon
> which is available. It is still in the p-list archives, apparently in
> fearless defiance of the copyright laws
>
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=279&sort=date
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=280&sort=date
>
> and was posted to the list back in 1995 even despite Steven Weisenburger's
> strongly-expressed reservations at the time
>
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=162&sort=date
>
> best
>
>
> ----------
> >From: "Dave Monroe" <monroe at mpm.edu>
> >Subject: Re: JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids
> >Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2000, 7:53 AM
> >
>
> > 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 (?).
>
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>