Blicero's Homosexuality

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 20 22:59:13 CST 2001


Again, I have discovered nothing, in his fiction, his prose,
his letters, biography, in the critical studies, on this
list, that is evidence that TRP has anything at all to say
about sexual practice, be these homosexual, heterosexual,
mastabatory, or whatever. 
Sex is very important in Pynchon's fiction, but as far as I
am concerned, sexual relations in P's fiction function not
as social commentary on these sexual relations as such, but
are symbolic of other concerns and themes. I think it is a
great disservice to his art to suggest otherwise.
Pornography , prophylactics, abortion, S&M, sterility,
sodomy, rape, pederasty, incest, voyeurism, fetishism,
prostitution, masturbation, bestiality, transvestitism,
virginity and cherry popping, hermaphroditism,
nymphomania....so on and so on are all mixed in with the
sacred/scientific themes. So Pudding's affair with Katje is
no more a commentary on golden showers and what P thinks of
them, than Weissman's affair with with Katje is a commentary
on their sexaul activities. Sex is only one trope, religion,
science, film (pornography), all these are mixed in too. P
is no more anti-homosexual than he is anti-religious imho.
In fact, what P is against is not easily stated, but
certainly if we are looking for the heroic in his fictions,
we should look low, not high. 
 


David Morris wrote:
> 
> Terrance,
> 
> This rhetoric/quote is so inherently inflamatory that it shouldn't be thrown
> out to our winds without your own statement about its meaning, or at least
> the content of it's context.  You don't presume that it speaks for itself,
> do you?  How's about a little logical presentation of an idea to accompany
> this quote.
> 
> DM
> 
> >From: Terrance
> >
> >"Blicero's paranoia is of the megalomaniacal kind described
> >by Freud as based in homosexual libido combined with an
> >ambivalence about the father image."
> >
> >Thomas Moore, *The Style of Connectedness*
> 
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