Bianca

[pynchonoid]

< I still have no
> idea why Pynchon would 
> choose to have his protagonist (such as Slothrop is)
> do such a thing, and 
> why there seems to be a theme of sex with underage
> girls running through not 
> just GR but Pynchon in general. It's disturbing and
> very unattractive and - 
> to me anyway - inexplicable and hard to take.
> 

Agreed that it's disturbing imagery, but it works as
an element in Gravity's Rainbow, for me at least.
Pokler's incest fantasy bothers me more.  Zwolfkinder
puts it all in the right framework and redeems it,
imo.




 
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