TMoP, Chap 12..Isaev

[David Morris]

I keep on thinking that D's belated impassioned devotion to his dead
stepson rings false.  Why so passionate, even beyond his own control?
And why now, to a son that was never really his son?

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Clearly, the relationship with Nechaev is charged with Oedipal tension - which makes D's attraction to Nechaev when he first encounters the revolutionary in drag all the more perverse.
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> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: TMoP, Chap 12..Isaev
>> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 8:36 AM
>> D. learns what his stepson seems to think about him in a
>> story he wrote. He thinks about his own neglect of his son,
>> his pettiness in letters.
>>
>> Fatherless son....that angle to the Fathers & Sons
>> motif...is this why Pavel even came to know such as
>> Nechaev?....Had his father not neglected him, would he be
>> alive?....
>>
>> Is the Movement made up of fatherless sons?
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