Femmes Fatales in AtD, somewhat corrected

[Ian Livingston]

Much about the ineffectual women in earlier works, little about the pathological men. What about all the men who show up, get laid, or do some damage and disappear?  In all the books.  I'm thinking rather in terms of female characters representing the lunar aspect and male characters representing the solar aspect of the caduceus.  Where the two meet, something always happens.  "always him to her..."  the solar aspect is agentic and shines on the lunar aspect, which is receptive.  Where the two meet at the center line of the staff, there is completion, momentary balance.

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From: Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:42:17 AM
Subject: Re: Femmes Fatales in AtD, somewhat corrected

A-and how about that Greta, not to mention... that sexual-star of the
show, Woman/Child Bianca!  Slothrop really cared about her, but she,
like all of his women, disappears.  FWIW, the Slothrops trysting
locations in London get blown-up, but not afterwards, and we don't
know about the London girls themselves, i.e. where they when the bombs
fell.  Until just now, when I questioned my assumptions, I was as sure
as P'man and Mexico & Jessica et al seem to be, that they perished in
the blasts, but now I wonder.

AsB4,
Henry Mu

http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm

On 4/17/08, Michael Bailey wrote:
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> <snipped by HM>
> > So, how about goddesses of love in AtD?......"always him to her, that was
> > the pattern, best
> > to keep that in mind"-----Reef...863
> > Yashmeen
> > Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin
> > Jacintha Drulove (it seems)
> >
> > nowhere else in his oeuvre, right?
>
> well, Frenesi...Prairie, to some extent...
> that Wiccan chick in Germany that Robin's always on about...
> Paola in V. - spirituo/sexual center of the book I still maintain
> the belated wife in M&D (bit of a stretch, but not terribly so)
> DL for those of us who appreciate the floozie with an Uzi
>
> and for Mexico, definitely Jessica!
>
> I will agree, not so many love interests in the short stories, though






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