ATDTDA (5.4) - Bad Ice After Midnight
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 13:29:32 CDT 2007
On 3/30/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> That was pretty puzzling for me when Pynchon revealed the Nunatak 'spirit' as an odalisque. Why odalisque? And, what is more important, who decided that it was an odalisque or odalisque-like? The narrator, that's for sure
Odalisque = female slave of female sexual slaves of the Sultan
This object was made, given a purpose, and given a plan to carry out
that purpose. It is the slave of its maker, however "conscious" it
might be.
BTW, I don't think it was a Nunatuk spirit, at least the chums don't
seem to think so.
David Morris
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