Can Pynchon write (yet)?
terrance terrance
terrorence at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 4 15:54:10 CST 2006
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>I don't find any misogyny in P's writing. His female characters are no
>flatter than his male characters. The hallmarks of myisogyny: outright
>diatribes against women, women introduced purely as love interest ("the
>girl"), or obviously male characters (gun-toting , cigar-chomping chief of
>police) presented as female for tokenism or yuks; all of these are absent
>in Pynchon.
SL, V., GR, are Hemingwayish to say the least. Toni Morrison could have a
picnic with P's playing in the dark with her-veeness. What struck me is that
Paul N. said that P's mysogyny made him a less sophisticated writer. Not
sure how this works, but it gives me the shivers to the very top of my
tingling spine.
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