ATD verdict?

[David Morris]

I haven't read the scene you're talking about yet, but I know that
Pynchon sometimes makes his sexual relations more about power
relations than emotion, eros, love, etc.  S&M plays big in his sexual
world, and submission is sometimes turned on its head, and sexual
martyrdom is an act of empowerment.

If the scene was "horrible and unappealing" it was most likely meant to be so.

David Morris

On 12/28/06, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
> Me neither. The stupid sex scene I just got to in AtD is so friggin awful, worse than anything I have ever read. I've read almost all Pynchon and could not conceive of more horrible unappealing attempt at describing a woman's motivation for being attracted to sex. I liked M&D the best, then COL49, then GR, then V.