SLSL "TSR" death & sex

[pynchonoid]

re "TSR", in the Intro, TRP sez:

"In 'The Small Rain' characters are found dealing with
death in pre-adult ways. They evade: they sleep late,
they seek euphemisms. When they do mention death they
try to make with the jokes. Worst of all, they hook it
up with sex."  (5)

Again, if I read this correctly, Pynchon would seem to
be bucking a trend, certainly in Hemingway, the author
he seems to lampoon most savagely in "TSR".  I wonder
if he means to say here that it's just not right to
link sex and death?  That this is one of those things
he mentioned a few paragraphs earlier in the Intro,
another element of "most of what I dislike about my
writing", that he continues to link sex and death in
his writing up to the 1984 present day and he doesn't
like that aspect of his writing?  Or that here in his
first published story he just does it ineptly? Or
something else?

-Doug

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