175s

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I Preface my question with a link to Katz. 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/context/katzhistory.html

Katz is required reading in one of my classes. I agree with
arguments. 

The last time we discussed this passage, I was accused of
being homophobic. This seems to be a pattern here now. Play
the man not the ball. My comments are the Luddite essay,
where I kept repeating Thomas Pynchon's statement that the
Badass is almost universally admired by men, was said to be
missing the point. I can't imagine how I could be missing
the point being made by Pynchon by quoting the point Pynchon
made. Oh, well, the Badass is now everything from Mic Jagger
to Jesus Christ and the Old Testament God. 
What happened to the Hulk, the golem, the superhero,
frankensein's creature? These were not discussed,  I guess,
because Pynchon makes a point of saying that these are the
Badass. In any event, the argument here that Blicero is a
Badass is OK by me, since the Badass, as we have
deconstructed here, has no meaning at all. 

 

"They are the 175s--homosexual prison-camp inmates. They
have come north from the Dora camp at Nordhausen, north till
the land ended, and have set up an all male community
between this marsh and the Order estuary. Ordinarily, this
would be Thanatz's notion of paradise, except that none of
the men can bear to be out of Dora--Dora was home, and they
are homesick. Their "liberation" was a banishment." GR.665


Why is that these men cannot bear to be out of Dora? 
Why is the "liberation" a banishment?