Pornography

[DudiousMax at aol.com]

Yo Dude,
                I'll reframe what I think is a reasonable question.  Why does 
TRP use "erotigraphic" writing just now?  If not just to tickle the clit, to 
fondle the nozzle, to whisper sexy aspirants in our ear, Why?  He seems to do 
nothing to no-purpose.  There is vanishingly little explicit lovemaking 
depicted in SLOW LEARNER,  V.,  or LOT 49, published in the era when First 
Ammendment rights had recently been loosened.  Not too long before, when TRP 
was an under graduate, we had to rely on friends coming back from Paris to 
read NAKED LUNCH, or even the much milder LOLITA.  (Fifty Million Frenchman 
Can't Be Wrong.)  Why now, in GR? at this point in the text? does Pynchon use 
"erotigraphics"?  As one doe said to another, "Some days you can't make a 
buck."  I did like rj's clarifying the meta-reader.  It was a good summary of 
the critical literature on that. 

                                   Max