blicero's sexuality

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Sounds kinda Ed Gein-ish to my 'Sconsinite ears.  And
> thanks, Terrance, for the notes on Nutley, NJ, one of
> those things that got lost in the frenzy on my end.
> Again, much of interest set up in that ostensibly
> transitional chapter.  But we all build our own
> rathouses, we all perform our own stencilizations ...


Going out for lunch, it must be sixty degrees F here,
beautiful day. Just a quick comment. 

Dave, Yes, except Blicero would want a synthetic skin. 

Jeremy, 

I'm not sure what the point of this is. What is the
point here? Is it that Mr. Eddins is reading Pynchon from a
stuffy, rigid, perspective, or possibly a homophobic one? If
so, you'll have to take that up with him. You can find his
e-mail address online.
People are generally happy to here that their "out of
print"  books are still
being read and discussed. This has been my experience with
Mr. Eddins and others. 
That being said,  I don't think one should be so quick
to agree with the implicit critique in  a question like this
one. Of course, if Eddins
were making the argument that Kai's sentence seems to imply
(a quote that is the second sentence of a paragraph, and
part of long and I think the best reading of Blicero to
date) or how you seem to be reading it, that is, that in GR 
human
imagination stands in opposition to natural instincts, I
would agree with your reading, for this too would stand in
counterpoint to much that I have been able to glean from
reading P as well. However, this is not the argument being
constructed by Mr. Eddins.  

We will have ample opportunity to discuss sex, eroticism,
science/relgion and
the like  in P's fiction as we turn now to Mondaugen. 
Reminds me to mention Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."


> 
> --- lorentzen-nicklaus
> <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  "by dressing as a woman with artificial genitalia
> > fashioned from various
> >  synthetics and by interdicting the natural
> > attraction between gottfried and
> >  katje, blicero is undertaking to found a competing
> > sexual order, one that is
> >  entirely the product of human imagination rather
> > than the natural instincts and
> >  that serves death - the oven - rather than life."
> > (dwight eddins: the gnostic
> >  pynchon, pp. 148f.)
> >
> >
> >  isn't this interpretation a little stuffy, if not
> > homophobe?
> >
> >  weissmann's passionate "polymorph perversity" makes
> > him, imo, all too human.
> >
> >  compare this to pointsman!
> 
> > frontschwester frederieke
> 
> 
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