AtD / TRP / feminist type stuff

[bekah]

At 5:52 PM -0500 12/29/06, terrance terrance wrote:
>>**
>>"American males, ... still small boys inside.  Flange is this type 
>>of character, although when I wrote this story I thought I wrote he 
>>was pretty cool.  He wants children - why isn't made clear - but 
>>not at the price of developing any real life shared with an adult 
>>woman. His solution to this is Nerissa, a woman with the size and 
>>demeanor of a child.  I can't remember for sure, but it looks like 
>>I wanted some ambiguity here about whether or not she was a 
>>creature of his fantasies."
>
>American males are still small boyz inside. I guess Tom settled 
>down. No more drinking out of the milk carton. No more garbage man 
>smearing rotten fish on the piano bench banging chicks on the fire 
>escape Tom Swift books under the bed. Good for him, but that doesn't 
>exactly lend itself to writing novels like GR.
>
>Is that it?


I have no idea what Pynchon did at any time in his life.  (There's 
not been a whole lot reported.)  (g)  Those are his words taken from 
the Introduction to Slow Learner (see pg.  10) probably  written in 
about 1984 or a bit earlier.  That's about a decade after GR and 
about 5 years prior to Vineland.


http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/slslindex.html

Bekah
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