ATD SPOILER p 262-269

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
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>Actually, no, I don't get that feeling about Pynchon
>relative to this material, not at all, and certainly
>didn't mean to suggest anything like that, not at all.
>I don't see him as a stern patriarchal moralizing
>judge when it comes to sex, and I wouldn't expect him
>to parrot the voices  of conventional morality that
>might seek such an interpretation. Since I haven't
>finished the novel, I don't know what ATD has in store
>for Lake.    I expect that close reading of this
>scene, in its various contexts within ATD, and
>relative to similar scenes (as Robin suggests)
>Pynchon's other novels, will reveal a lot going on
>beneath the surface.
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>Pynchon is dealing with sensitive material here, and
>were it not for the way he has specifically addressed
>issues of how he dealt with women in his early novels
>(In the Slow Learner intro), it might be tempting to
>assume  patriarchal values on the author's part might
>be coming into play here, with a scene intended to be
>read as you suggest.  But having made it an issue that
>addressed in such a public way, I'm expecting close
>reading to uncover references and allusions that will
>provide other ways of looking at these passages with
>Lake, Deuce, and Sloat.

Good points. The context defined by Pynchon's other novels, essays, etc. is 
extremely important for a nuanced reading of AtD, especially if one 
considers all the overt and covert interconnections between this novel and 
the previous ones. I wouldn't go so far as to call it one big novel, as 
you've done a couple of times - the stylistic differences between each novel 
are simply too pronounced for that - but the different novels definitely 
belong to a unified conceptual aether and a scene like the gruesome 
threesome with Lake, Deuce, and Sloat resonates so much more when read in 
the context of previous similar constellations like Blicero/Katje, 
Katje/Pudding, or Frenesi/Brock.

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