MDDM Ch. 75 What Might Be an Embrace

[Dave Monroe]

"The old Astronomers sit for a while in what might be
an Embrace, but that they forbear to touch." (M&D, Ch.
75, p. 737)

Again, cf. ...

"'It is possible,' here comments the Revd Cherrycoke,
'that for some couples, however close, Love is simply
not in the cards.  So must they pursue other projects,
instead,-- sometimes together, sometimes apart.  I
believe now, that their Third Interdiction came when,
at the end of the eight-Year Traverse, Mason and Dixon
could not cross the perilous Boundaries between
themselves.'" (M&D, Ch. 71, p. 689)

And, again, from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men:
English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (NY:
Columbia UP, 1985), "Introduction," pp. 1-20 ...

"'Homosocial' is a word occasionally used in history
and the social sciences, where it describes social
bonds between persons of the same sex; it is a
neologism, obviously formed by analogy with
'homosexual,' and just as obviously meant to be
distinguished from 'homosexual.'  In fact, it is
applied to such activities as 'male bonding,' which
may, as in our society, be characterized by intense
homophobia, fear and hatred of homosexuality." (p. 1)

http://www.cc.utah.edu/~tsk2/lecture.html#Homosociality

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69699&sort=date

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