Liberation? (was Re: Cutting ... )

[J L]

butting in, here --

terrance asked :
>Why do the Dora homosexuals experience their freedom as
>banishment rather than liberation?

Maybe 'it's when closest to Death that one feels most Alive'; also for these 
folks internment may have been the first time that Loneliness was not a 
problem.

The cosiness of the collective (para)military group, and
the effect of expulsion/withdrawal on the individual, is
a regular motif in Pynchon; and I'd include the Camp Experience in this.

Some characters seem to find Enlightenment when alone.  Others struggle with 
life on the Outside and try to rediscover or recreate the comforts in a new 
gang.
That Counterforce is so sad.

JL
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