seed into feces (was: Re: VV(12) - Choosing Victimization)

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lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> 
> flaherty schrieb:
> 
> > Blicero sex is sterile, his seed flows into feces,
> > he fails to usurp the powers of mother nature.
> 
>   do you really suggest here that anal intercourse is "death-orientated" and
>   "sterile" because there is no chance of pregnancy?! you're making it worse and
>   worse ...
> 
> kfl


Please see the chapter that includes the quote I posted, 
"Deviations." page 319

Sexual relations in GR are not so much an expression of
human desire, as symbolic of the 
attempt to transcend the cycle of life and death ( Earth's
Natural realm) through violent sado-masochistic acts and
other "deviations." 

So if you read the list of "sexual acts" (318-19) and
consider several of the most important themes and metaphors
and ideas and symbolisms-- color for example, contrast white
and black with the passage from Toni Morrison--I think it is
clear that here  the male sperm is white, white being the
color of man's attempts to dominate natural cycles and so
on,  flows into black feces, the color of the repressed, 
and this causes a poisoning (think Angel and Rilke), a
poisoned manure. A poisoning, we are told at serverl points
in the novel, is Angelic, and remember that fathers carry
the poison, the sickness, be it Christian or in Freudian
terms the Oedipal situation in the Zone. Also ("once only"
for example, and "sold on suicide," "the empty ones"...this
is in fact what is happening in the sewer, Benny's contract
with the alligators, destroyer and destroyed in V. and so
on, it's a religious bond).  

I think it is not a matter of anal intercourse being "death
orientated" and "sterile," (although this is its symbolic
function in GR, all sexual "Deviations" serve larger themes,
in fact, sex in all of Pynchon's fiction functions as such,
so if you turn back to the chapter, Dave Monroe's party, you
will discover that sex is functioning this way there as
well)  as it is a matter of all sexual acts, sodomy being
the most important symbol because it connects several of the
the major themes in the novel and the major characters of
the novel.