blicero's sexuality

[Terrance]

lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> 
>  ausflüchte, nichts als ausflüchte ... well, let's see:
> 
> > I disagree with your speculative characterization of the
> > Eddins interpretation.
> 
>  it's not speculative, i quoted his words. & this is eddins' view on perverse
>  sexuality in pynchon throughout the whole study. 

It is not homophobic, not stuffy, but a reading of the
"perverse sexuality" in a fiction. 

***We need first, to define in what sense these sexual acts
are said to be perverse sexual acts, unnatural sexual acts, 
in the fiction.***

 
Eddins does this for us. This will also go to your question
about gnosticism, Jewish mysticism, S&M, and other related
matters. The terms that you object to, that you find
offensive and indeed would be if applied to individual
people or cultures or religions are not so when  we read
Eddnins book as he has written it, as a comment on P's
fiction and not as a sociological study of sexual
"perversity." 

Again, his reading of the "perverse sexuality" in Pynchon's
fiction,  and it is a fiction and it is present as "perverse
sexuality" in Thomas Pynchon's novels, is not a sociological
or anthropological study, not a moral condemnation of sexual
practices that deviate from some "moral and acceptable
norm," some Western conservative and puritanical
ethno-centrism. This is your reading of it, and I disagree
with it. You seek to define the "perverse sexuality" of the
fiction of Thomas Pynchon and the commentary on that fiction
by Mr. Eddins as homophobic and "stuffy" by deconstructing
his essay and applying his language to the practices of real
people, not fictional characters. If Mr. Eddnis were to
write an essay in which he stated that the sexual practices
of Indians is perverse, that would be a horse of a different
color, a different matter all together. 

So, if we can move on to defining the terms I am prepared to
do my part. 

"she's gotta ticket to ride, 
she's gotta ticket to r eye eye ide
she's gotta a ticket to ride
and she don't care
My baby don't care

(is this a song about Abortion?)