pynchon-l-digest V2 #1424

[Doug Millison]

Pynchon the author of GR is the one who has complicated Enzian's love 
for Weissmann/Blicero with complex colonial and sadomasochistic power 
dynamics and other unhealthy psychological baggage. I expect that 
you'll be able to see it in the text, one of these days, just as you 
were gradually able to recognize Pynchon's depictions of the 
Holocaust that you earlier denied were present in GR.

As a loving spouse in a 17-year-and-going-strong interracial and 
intercultural marriage, and as a person who has worked and continues 
to work for social justice -- contributing time, work, and even a 
little bit of hard-earned cash -- I reject your  identification of my 
views with apartheid.  After your paranoid meltdown last year, and 
your vicious assault on myself and other individuals in this forum in 
recent months, I suggest that you find a counselor you can talk with 
and begin to come to terms with the various pathologies that seem to 
dominate your attempts at communication with your fellow human beings.

-Doug


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>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:39:57 +1100
>From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: GRGR tainted love

[snip Jeremy]

>
>That's right. In fact, if millison had his way the only true and proper
>(untainted?) relationship Enzian could ever have would be with someone of
>his own race. He wouldn't have been able to move from Namaland (now Namibia,
>- -- at a pinch millison might have let him run off into the Botswanan
>Kalahari; of course, he'd have died there, but at least he would have been
>"free") or interact with any white person without this taintedness
>corrupting the relationship and occasioning such "psychological damage" on
>him that no-one would believe or pay any heed to what he said anyway.
>
>I think there were laws in various places which actually regulated this
>vision of millison's at one stage, too. They were called apartheid.
>
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