an apology and correction...

[Doug Millison]

...to Hanjo Berressem for mangling a quote from his insightful and 
thought-provoking Pynchon Notes article, "Tristes Traumatiques: 
Trauma in the Zone:s."

Here is the corrected passage:

He spends some time and effort coming to grips with the notion that
"as _Gravity's Rainbow_ reminds us -- and this is part of why it
didn't get the Pulitzer Prize -- in our society the psychosexual
pathologies resulting from trauma have been eroticized, so that we
have learned -- or have we been conditioned? -- to be in love with
our own death. In the novel's countless S and M scenarios, pain has
become a source of sexual arousal; in this acting out, the stroke of
the letter literally beomces the stroke of the whip. Pain has come to
function as an erotic currency, with Kryptosam and Imipolex the
synthetic chemical catalysts under whose auspeces this unholy bonding
takes place."




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