SPOILER:Re: AtDTdA: (9) 268-269

[rich]

been mulling over that comment in GR about men freely loving in the
trenches. is this necessarilly a homosexual subtext or the natural human
reaction to blind fear, taking comfort in the arms of another, not in a
sexual way at all.  soldiers bond in a very strong way after confronting
primal fears, right? contrast these feelings with other negative remarks in
GR re: high class faggotry and such. of course, the sassoons and owens do
come to mind. but Sassoon's homosexuality I think did not have the effect
people may assume with regards to feelings towards his men.

I think the homoeroticism is very much more appealing in AtD than in GR.  If
I'm not mistaken Cyprian carries Reef's sperm in his mouth and implanting in
Yashmeen's womb. I thought that was a clever riff (or reef if you're french)
on Frenesi's comment about her connection as a vessel b/w Weed and Vond. not
forgetting the Lake Deuce Sloat threesome either.

rich


On 6/4/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Spoiler below.
>
> On 5/24/07, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > - and later DL tells Prairie: "Maybe your mom's only in there to make it
> look normal and human so the boys can go on discreetly porkin' each other."
> > (VL, 266)
>
> Pynchon has become really polymorphous in his sexual connections in
> AtD.  This threesome has a later parallel with Reef (of all people),
> Cyprian, & Yashmeen,  with Reef porking Cyprian even without
> Yashmeen's presence.  Reef even begins to wonder about how it might
> feel to be porked by Cyprian.  This "family" is so sweetly portrayed.
> This seems like a far cry from the *mostly* negative connotations of
> male homosexuality in GR...  And it seems Pynchon relates almost all
> sexual relationships as forms of S&M...
>
> David Morris
>
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