Can Pynchon write (yet)?

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 4, 2006, at 4:54 PM, terrance terrance wrote:

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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.

Maybe it was the sex-obsession of the 50s generation (Ike's kids)  
that made Pynchon seem more mysogynistic and homophobic.

Outgrowing an obsession might possibly be considered a gain in  
sophistication.

Need a better word however.






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