AtD / TRP / feminist type stuff

[bekah]

At 5:42 PM -0500 12/29/06, terrance terrance wrote:
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>I doubt that the Feminist readings of GR that argue for equal time 
>on stage are worth very much.

I doubt I'd be interested in any feminist readings, either,  they get 
a little strident sometimes and lose the general sense of a work to 
some infinitesimally small speculations.   (Are there any feminist 
readings of Pynchon? - serious question).    I've never been seen 
myself as particularly "feminist," anyway - I  get stirred once in 
awhile but it's not a way of life.

  Fwiw.  I'm far more interested in just understanding a bit more of 
the basic plots and an outline of some of Pynchon's themes and their 
connections in specific books as well as in his oeuvre.  I need to 
reread the books themselves for that,   Vineland for the 3rd time, 
GR,  M&D and AtD for a 2nd (they are big honkers),  TCoL49 for a 
4th.   ( I usually get kind of burned out on a book after a 3rd 
reading,  there are very precious few which have stood up to more 
than that for me.)   And maybe I'll have time for V. also,  it sounds 
pretty interesting on the surface and there's usually a lot more 
going on beneath the surface in a Pynchon tome.

Bekah