NPPF: Keith's Shocking Theory

[The Great Quail]

Paul writes,

> How do Pynchon and Nabokov compare in the treatment of homosexuality?
> 
> It's associated in both with the tyrannical. Blicero is tyrannical AND
> attractive. 

I am not sure that one connection is enough to form a global association. I
see Blicero's sexuality functioning on two levels. One, it links him to the
early homosexual Nazis of the brown shirts, the SA. After all, one of the
"stated" reasons for the Night of Long Knives was to purge the party of this
element, as embodied by Ernst Roehm. This of course ties in with the whole
fetishistic aspect of Nazi camp, which I think is also a 1973 projection
back upon Blicero. Secondly, by making Blicero homosexual, Pynchon could
drive deeper the metaphors of power as fucking over people, such as the
Herero and Gottfried...

--Quail