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[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Carvill John wrote:

>> Given the omnipresence of ...
>
> Nope, doesn't convince me, sorry. 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.

You might as well ask, why  write about a  War that killed 20 million  
people?


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