Unsafe Children of VitVatersRand
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 24 15:37:16 CDT 2002
>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>We read that they live in NY and the only grounds for adultery in NY is
>adultery. [...] He decides to get out of the marriage by committing
>adultery with Paola. [...] Roony's rationalization seems to be the point.
>[...] His true motives are pretty much the same as Pig's.
Agreed again, but the situation is more than a little bit contrived by
Pynchon, wouldn't you say? Winsome's passive behavior and Mafia's adultery
had been going along for a long time before Paola arrived on the scene. I
say it's not the best fiction-writing.
David Morris
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