on 17/7/03 12:46 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote: > The idea that he is (or that Pynchon is) consciously decking himself out as > a demented housewife, is condescending and chauvinistic, in my opinion. Not the idea of it, sorry. If that's what either one is doing then they're being condescending and chauvinistic, imo. best