apologies in advance

[hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi]

"Generic" Structuration Metaphors in Pynchon’s Novels 
or 
SW Application Development Gets to You


_V._	                --   vagina
_The Crying of Lot 49_	--   hymen
_Gravity’s Rainbow_	--   phallus 
_Vineland_		--   womb
_Mason & Dixon_		--   testicles	 
?                       --   ? 


Qualifications:

1) Poses as a Lacanian gap or negation. However, there’s more to
purr-loined letters than that, as has been written about the 
purveyors of (full/void) truth.
2) Insisting on "vaginal route toward conception [of any kind]",
as some have done, can indeed make the novel seem wanting, but
Mallarme hepcats are not that easily hookwinded.
3) Some say the Rocket turns out a Butleresque "lesbian phallus".
Maybe. Whatever the case: even if all imaginable phalluses 
played each other out, a Zonal matrix (not to be mixed up with
the more or less closed generic structuration metaphor in the
following novel) swarms on.
4) Points to the crucial question of mothers and mothering in the
novel, and also to the enclave (not to be mixed up with the much
more hopeful, dangerous and stirring "breeding ground" in the
preceding novel) of Vineland. The womb resisting the numb surface
of the narrated America with no erotogenic spots.
5) It was discovered by your really quite unhip Prodigal Son only
when writing these lines (his first attempt at litcrit for ages)
that there, heh, well, actually is some sort of a *line* to be
found between the testicular pair...
6) Beats me. (Two adjacent up-opening parabolas
? well that's most
unlikely, but were that the case, hope they will not prove too big
for the European liking.)


Sorry,
Heikki