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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