Pinching Women

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
I too used to think that women wouldn't read P unless he shows up on a
syllabus somewhere.  

But I've since figured it out. Truth be told, relatively few people of
either gender really enjoy P, and since few of my non-P-list friends
are really readers anyway, it's no surprise that no women I know have
ever read P for pleasure. I don't know any non-P-list *men*  (I call
them "normals") who've read P for pleasure.

I can't tell you how many copies of GR I've given away to no avail.
Eventually I realised that I was using GR to *test* people, and that
they resented this, and so I keep myself to myself on the topic of P
anymore. I do better at parties as a result, let me tell you. A real
Pynchon enthusiast is no more fun to meet than a Jehovah's Witness.

I've met a few ex P-listers who are women, and I can recommend their
company highly. They may be rare birds, but they *are* birds, for all
that. Stately, wonderful birds with big hearts, fine minds, and great
stems.

Mark

--- Ian Scuffling <scuffling at hotmail.com> wrote:

> My then-wife read GR and COL49, partially in order to better
> understand me
> and what the fuss is about.  I didn't notice the call letters KCUF
> until she
> pointed them out to me.
> 
> Could the reason for so few P-Women be the same as for the paucity of
> female
> comedians?  A rad-fem-lesbian told me years ago that the way that you
> know
> that you're in a feminist bookstore is that there's no humor section.
>  But
> seriously, most guys try to be funny and many women are kind enough
> to
> laugh.  Does the process of reading Pynch somehow almost involve the
> reader
> in creating humor, partly in order to stay removed from the fray?  
> 
> Putting on my asbestos-line steel cup,
> 
> Henry M
> 
> 


		
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