VLVL2 (2) Friday the 13th's 'Final Girl'

[Paul Nightingale]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Terrance
> Sent: 25 July 2003 19:10
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: VLVL2 (2) Friday the 13th's 'Final Girl'
> 
> 
> > The critical works cited here are all products of the cultural
debates
> > of the 1980s. In VL Pynchon presents such debates as debates,
without
> > offering resolution, without making this or that character a
mouthpiece
> > for a given POV.
> 
> What '80's cultural debates are presented as mere debates in VL?
>
 
If you bother to read what I've posted you'll know. And I didn't use the
word 'mere' - makes all the difference to the meaning of the sentence.

> Can't think of one. And if P avoids the mouthpiece ploy (obviously the
> way he creates characters and themes in his other novels) in VL (I
doubt
> this is true) how does he present these debates?

Write something substantive and I'll think about responding.