castrated P

[David Morris]

Terrance is back.

OK.  So late Pynchon seems less Phallo-you-know.  His males are older,
and so is he.  Should he be be taking a P-drug?  Does this make him
boring compared to his virile former self?  Hormones might do wonders,
but who knows?

Your point of less sex in his later novels (my paraphrase) is one not
much mentioned, It seems a funny basis for literary value... unless
one makes a further value connection.  I'm sure you could do so, but I
fear your return to scatter shot hints at theses under you hat...

David Morris

On 8/28/06, terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> GR was a roaring success in the 70s and even in the 80s. People talked about  P getting a nobel prize. In the 70s and 80s the nobel for literature was given to males. Only males. And some manly men too. Roth and Pynchon missed the high water mark for Hemingway-like male writers.  In the 90s, a record 4 females were awarded the nobel in literature. So what? Well, P is essentially a man's author and his modern view of females is deeply embedded in his fiction. It looks like he's lost his balls. Roth Marquez, Grass, by contrast, are still writing like men with super balls, P has been castrated.
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