SLSL "TSR" Swamp Wench

[pynchonoid]

Scott, 

It's interesting to look at Buttercup through this
lens, but depraved, sex-addicted gold-digger -- sorry,
that's not how I read Buttercup. Writing the story in
a way that might permit or even invite those sorts of
readings may be part of what Pynchon's getting at in
his apology for the gender politics of some of the SL
stories, in his Intro.


Scott Badger:
>Levine and Buttercup both seem to enjoy the
>fore-banter, but 
>while
>he simply goes through the motions,

I think Levine is doing something besides going
through the motions -- with his hat on, puffing the
cigar, making her undress first then wait for him on
the bed, he's treating her like a whore,  the way the
men treat the Swamp Wench he's been reading about in
that lurid, soft-core porno paperback. 

>isn't 
>there
>at least a bit of depravity in her "whimpering" from
>the mattress? 

Or, maybe she's just acting in a way that the men in
her life have taught her to act. Or, maybe she's one
of those women who knows how to get started without
waiting for the man. Or... many ways to read this
without calling her depraved.


>An
>addict's craving for what no longer stimulates
>(transmarginal??)? 

That would be sad, indeed.

>Or 
>maybe
>she's just thumbing a ride up out of the swamp....too
>bad for her that
>Levine, the plowboy college-boy, is going native.

That one's sad, too, if the gold-digger's way up in an
enlisted man in the US Army posted to the Louisiana
swamps.






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