TMoP, Chap 12..Isaev

[Lawrence Bryan]

Yes. From the very beginning this seemed way too over blown. Will we  
get an answer in chapters 17 through 20 which, gulp, I'm supposed to  
moderate next?

Lawrence, wondering if he'll have time to reread them with the new  
World of Warcraft expansion due out at midnight this Wednesday...

On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:59 AM, David Morris wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>