ATD sex (WAS ATD verdict?)

[Ya Sam]

I think the sex scene in question takes place closer to the end. However 
compared to good ol' marquis, it's quite tame... if weird.


>From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: ATD sex (WAS ATD verdict?)
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:36:27 +0100
>
>Comparing the "Anubis"-scene with the "Four Corners"-scene there seems
>to have been an editor, the personnel has been reduced.
>
>2006/12/28, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>:
>>
>>On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>>
>> > In general, I was pretty ambivalent toward the various sex scenes
>> > in the latter part of the book.  Part of me wonders if it's a
>> > stylistic thing that comes with age -- a 69-year-old man writing
>> > about fetishistic sex in ATD vs. a 35-year-old man writing about
>> > the same in GR.  Not saying that a 69-year-old man doesn't "know"
>> > sex, but I wonder if one's age has something to do with one's
>> > approach to writing about it.  Whereas the sex scenes in GR are
>> > kinkily erotic, the ones in ATD seemed rote (and kinda stupid) to me.
>>
>>
>>Maybe Melanie should have played Lysistrata to Tom'e Athenians until
>>he consented to hire himself an editor.
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>> > 'Course, it could say just as much about the reader's approach to
>> > reading about sex, so ...
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>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >
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