SLSL Intro "A Creature of His Fantasies"

[Dave Monroe]

   "It is no secret nowadays, particularly to women,
taht many American males, even those of middle-aged
appearance, wearing suits and holding down jobs, are,
in fact, incredible as it sounds, still small boys
inside.  Flange is this type of character, although
when I wrote this story I thought he was pretty cool. 
He wants children--why isn't made clear--but not at
the price of developing any real life shared with an
adult woman.  His solution to this is Nerissa, a woman
with the size and demeanor of a child.  I can't
remember for sure, but it looks like I wanted some
ambiguity here about whether or not she was only a
creature of his fantasies." (SL, "Intro," p. 10)

>From Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler, et al., Lineland:
Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's
Pynchon-L at Waste.Org Discussion List (Philadelphia:
Intangible Assets Manufacturing, 1997), "Part 4: What
Did Lolita Say about Humbert?" pp. 69-80 ...

   "Bianca, obviously, is based on Chrissie, who
matured very late phyisically.  The first time Tom met
her, she still had a thin wire orthodontic
retainer....  her Shirley Temple imitations...." (p.
75)

   "I also feel very strongly that she had an
influence on Tom's writing style ...." (p. 76)

"... this unbelievably beautiful little blonde girl
with huge green eyes and eyelashes like a moth's
wings, a perfect figure like one of those water nymphs
in the Blue Danube sequence of Fantasia, wearing s
skimpy ecru cotton-knit shift and no underwear at all,
an over-sized blue man's fedora and Tom sawyer
schoolboy oxfords for girls from the children's shoe
department at Saks Fifth Avenue." (pp. 76-7)

"I think she got into his head and walked around in
there and rearranged the furniture." (p. 77)

Cf. ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9610&msg=7406&sort=date

>From Jules Siegel, "Who Is Thomas Pynchon ... and Why
Is He Tkaing Off with My Wife?," Playboy (March 1977),
rept. in Siegel et al., Lineland, pp. 83-98 ...

"A cute preteen attracted Tom's notice enough for him
to mention her lasciviously."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=1497&sort=date

And note as well ...

"The next year they drifted to Paris, where Fariña
fell in love with Mimi Baez, a lovely piece of
15-year-old jailbait."

"Reportedly a double biography of Fariña and Dylan is
in the works that documents a romance between Pynchon
and Fariña's widow."

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1999/10/13/farina/index.html

Cf. "subdeb" ...

http://www.angelfire.com/music/subdebs/

http://www.kpunk.com/subdebs/

Oh, and, er ...

http://www.alessandrastories.com/gdparts.shtml

... nymphets, preteens, jailbait, subdebs; Hedwig
Vogelsang, Bianca, Jet, Greet and Els Vroom; Benny
Profane, "Mucho" Maas, Tyrone Slothrop, Charles Mason;
"Humbert Humbert cats" et alia ...

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