IVIV touch

[alice wellintown]

I've not suggested that Penny can not express, exhibit, feel, share,
tenderness. In fact, I've been arguing the feminist reading here from
the start. So  ..whatever ...



On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> Gotta agree with Mark the K on the importance of these special, rare moments
> when characters touch in Pynchon's fiction, the skin interface seems an
> important one in his fiction.
>
> I've known some hard-charging professional women in my lifetime, a high
> school classmate became assistant DA in a rural Arizona county, and I don't
> think Penny reduces easily to that single dimension.  She's similar in some
> ways to Doc, enjoying her "hippie" kicks and not letting that get in the way
> of working her straight job as a cog in the big Justice wheel. The 1970s
> made it obvious, to me at least, that people could smoke pot and have long
> hair and listen to rock 'n' roll and otherwise look the part of a hippie and
> still be working for The Man.  That was the "Me Generation" after all, when
> people seemed to  decide to forget all that political nonsense and focus
> instead on personal pleasure.
>
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