I'm a homophobic too

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 11:31 AM, terrance terrance wrote:

> Everything is homophobic to kids today. They go to wokshops on  
> homophobia. They go for ADL training where they learn to treat gay  
> people like the gayest people in the world, happier than the  
> homophobic hetero. Give a person under 25 Hesse's Siddhartha and  
> they will fix every thought on Govinda's love of Siddhartha. Forget  
> about M-D. Jeez, Ishmael and his cannibal sleep in a marriage bed  
> and squeeze sperm! Every brilliant person, from Aristotle to Zeno  
> was a gay or  repressed and marginalized man or women of their  
> fascistic time.
>
> But we're more sophisticated than them.
>
> Thank Dog!

Yeah, the new century is more 50s than the 50s, but in reverse.

So, today it would  probably be impossible for a gifted writer to use  
homosexuality as a metaphor for corruption.

No one would get it.

And,  by extrapolation,  AtD will no doubt use white, male, straight,  
single goal sexuality to stand for where it all went wrong in the  
20th Century.

Oboy oboy . . .



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>> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>> To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: Can Pynchon write (yet)?
>> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:24:40 -0500
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>> On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:25 AM, Steven wrote:
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>>> 	Homophobic?   Are you basing that on the hilarious toilet/  
>>> harmonica scene in the first few pages of GR?
>>>
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>> Was more thinking of the projection of homosexuality on Nazi and   
>> British ruling class types.
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>> The idea of  sexual "deviancy" as  a social threat.
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>> Even a conspiracy.
>>
>> This might have made GR "seem" homophobic to some people.
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>>> On Nov 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe it was the sex-obsession of the 50s generation (Ike's  
>>>> kids)  that made Pynchon seem more mysogynistic and homophobic.
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
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