Pornography

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
>  Again, I am not suggesting that S&M is cruel, only that in
> GR, S&M functions as metaphor for dehumanizing cruelty. 
> Homosexuality also functions as metaphor, metaphor for
> sterility and death. 
> 
> This is not a comment on what Pynchon thinks of sex or love
> or erotica or my opinion of such, only how sex functions as
> metaphor in GR.
> 

Yes, this may be. I have to think more about it. My main interest in the
post was to separate the sex orgies from the idea of Death. They seemed to
me to be more by way of opposites. Struggling against each other as it
were. A desperate effort to cheat death. 

			P.