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[Mark Kohut]

No, He has a hardon for her because she is Shasta and a young hot woman.......like all the other young hot women he is hot for......

Inherent Vice's endless summer on the beach values are the Life, so to speak, in Pynchon and in
Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death

 I know Love in The Western World. 

SPOILER HINT ONLY: Pynchon refutes then sex equal death motif in one wonderful moment in Inherent Vice near the end of IV.  Talk about your subtleties..............

--- On Tue, 8/25/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Playlist
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 11:08 AM
> He is turned on by the new package,
> what she said she'd never be but is now.
> The make up, the clothes, the fetish, the actress. And when
> he tries
> to talk to her about Right & Wrong, she turns it into
> an equation,a
> credit and debit loyalty equation. She is femme fatale and
> he has a
> hardon for her. He wants her to be safe. To save her.
> 
> But its Love In The Western World.
> 
> In this classic work, often described as "The History of
> the Rise,
> Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont
> explores the
> psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to
> Hollywood.
> At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the
> inescapable conflict
> in the West between marriage and passion--the first
> associated with
> social and religious responsiblity and the second with
> anarchic,
> unappeasable love as celebrated by the troubadours of
> medieval
> Provence. These early poets, according to de Rougemont,
> spoke the
> words of an Eros-centered theology, and it was through this
> "heresy"
> that a European vocabulary of mysticism flourished and that
> Western
> literature took on a new direction.
> 
> Bringing together historical, religious, philosophical, and
> cultural
> dimensions, the author traces the evolution of Western
> romantic love
> from its literary beginnings as an awe-inspiring secret to
> its
> commercialization in the cinema. He seeks to restore the
> myth of love
> to its original integrity and concludes with a
> philosophical
> perspective on modern marriage.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Nah, doc's hardons in IV are not an attraction to
> death in IV....not even close.....
> >
> > Sex is life in IV....pervasive with Doc.....it is
> fucking on the beach before the paving stones.
> >
> > --- On Tue, 8/25/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Playlist
> >> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 8:25 AM
> >> Charlie loved that white album.
> >> Reminds me that the hardon, although a
> >> natural reaction to a sexual attraction, is an
> un-natural
> >> attraction
> >> to Death in Pynchon's fictions. He keeps this up
> in IV.
> >> And, even
> >> these professional men, under all that talk of
> business and
> >> money, and
> >> cool and groovy, are just "big city editions of
> that dreamy
> >> fatality."
> >> VL.299
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>