Fw: Yes, Pychon again---through Henry Adams

[Mark Kohut]

One of the major metaphors in Pynchon's oeuvre is "from the North---bad"
versus "from/in the South---good."
 
The mysterious "monster" in AtD comes from under the Northern ice. As do the evildoers in Gravity's Rainbow. 
 
The tropics, with bananas, monkeys, enjoyable laziness is a Good. 
 
It seems Jefferson --and Adams---shared this way of dividing things.  North/South, Male/Female (and "Adams always sided with the female values.")...from The Education of Henry Adams: "the brooding indolence of a warm climate.."the want of barriers;  of pavements, of forms, the looseness, the laziness; the indolent Southern drawl [the American South]; pigs in the streets"!---Pynchon loves pigs---..."Negro..mothers with bandanas";--another Pynchon item, of course; the freedom, openness, swagger of nature and man"...... 
 
On page 30-31 of "Henry Adams and the Making of America" might come one of the sources of TRPs--and Adams!-- vision:
A Jefferson letter that lists contrasting "character traits" between North and South....just a hint, North: "cool [as trait], sober, laborious, persevering, chicaning, superstitious and hypocritical in their religion"...vs. "voluptuary, generous, candid," among others for the South..........


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