Narrative Distance "the price of developing any real life shared with an adult woman" (SL.10)

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Ray Easton" <kraimie at kraimie.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Narrative Distance "the price of developing any real life 
shared with an adult woman" (SL.10)


>
>>  His American males are
>> little boys inside, unwilling to pay the price and grow up and into a
>> new inter-dependent relationship--have a family.
>>
>
> ,As Fiedler taught us, this sentence would be equally true of most any 
> important American novelist.
>
> Ray
>

As Abigail Adams was always saying "all men would be brutes is they could."

I think she also might have said that thing attributed to Lord Acton.

P