NPPF Re: Notes C.47-48 (part three)

[Jasper Fidget]

> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> 
> "Dear Jesus, do something" is a plea for relief from CK's obsession with
> young males.

Trying to explicate your meaning here: Kinbote centers in on the
"dreamy-eyed youngster," with the vicious circle made by the tethered plane
(something like a chart plotter drawn over the map of Wordsmith U) forming
endlessly around him.  Is Kinbote's focus really just on sexual relief, and
all his efforts some sort of sublimation of that urge?

I would agree that K has an obsession with young males.  He tries to make it
seem as though his desire gets satisfied, but these claims may be undermined
in the text: Bob leaves for a woman, the gardener is impotent (or worse,
hetero), Emerald is hetero and apparently spiteful toward K's advances, etc,
and part of the Zemblan fantasy is that he gets laid there (a lot).  But he
installs two ping-pong tables, presumably to support the overflow attracted
by the first -- or does he just have great expectations?

JasFid