> Otto wrote: > > Homoerotic Bonding as Escape from Heterosexual > Responsibility in Pynchon's Slow Learner.(Thomas Pynchon) > http://www.findarticles.com/m2342/3_34/70396388/p1/article.jhtml "When we read the introduction ironically, we, like Pynchon himself, place the stories in a preOedipa(l) position." Why would we read the Introduction ironically?