GRGR Finale Re: Homophobia in GR?

[Dave Monroe]

Gee, kids (jbor, Mackin', packin' AND snackin') I don't know how often
I('ll?) have to (re)state this for you, but ... don't recall anybody
calling Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow "homophobic" here, not quite
sure just who you all are responding to (maybe some o' them "critics"
that have been mentioned, but, alas, not named here?  Bibliography,
please, so's we can follow up, 'cos it's obviously of interest to
someone ELSE out there as well ...), question is, how IS TRP, GR USING
homosexuality?  'Cos it certainly, pointedly IS, at a time when
homosexuality was certainly, pointedly being asserted, coming out of
that closet, if you will.  Now, if you don't want address the issue,
answer the question, whatever, well, fine, but there's no need to
constantly, willfully misunderstand it, twist it around, in order to
cast aspersions on anyone here (or, for that matter, elsewhere).  But
"novels," literature, "the writing of," "highly literary," "for grown up
educated readers" (where? quick, before they get away ...), not
responsible to, for, I don't know, ethics, politics, whatever, " a
purely literary call" (and what the hell might THAT mean)?  "And it
clearly follows that textual analysis in the effort to prove any thesis
along these lines is a totally redundant nonstarter"--???  You guys
former Ayn Rand fans or something?  Jeez ...