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Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 13 17:29:11 CDT 2007


I think you're taking it too seriously. In my opinion, Pynchon just subverts 
the cliche of a father taking his son to a brothel for sex education.


>2.  Merle brings Dally to a brothel for a "program of study, brief and 
>clandestine." ???  No father any time any place in our universe or any 
>parallel universe even superficially resembling our own would EVER 
>encourage his daughter to enter a brothel for anything but his own 
>financial gain.  My own take on this is that TRP is succumbing once more to 
>his own particular sexual kink:  he gets off on teenaged girls having sex.  
>Opposing views welcome.

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