MDDM Ch. 70 Scalping Lord Lepton

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This brief scene with Catfish showing off Lepton's rifle, and Lepton's scalp
still dripping blood (680-1) reminded me of the castration of Major Marvy in
GR, although it's even more gruesome, less darkly comic than the episode in
the earlier novel. Here Pynchon's brutal stroke of poetic justice is
directed against a character probably less cruel than foolish, and certainly
less cruel and despicable than Marvy was.

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