IV Ch 17 Notes

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:40 PM, rich wrote:

> guess you had to be there ;)
>
> rich

Seriously—think about it. This scene is one of the more interesting  
linkages to a central theme in Gravity's Rainbow—a book pretty much  
obsessed with some pretty soulless S & M, among other interesting &  
unusual activities. While GR is set during the last days of WWII, the  
subtext is L.A. in the late sixties/early seventies.

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:02 AM, rich wrote:
>>
>>> 305
>>> Shasta says all the women around Mickey loved the brutal way he
>>> treated them, he made them invisible, played rough, and they loved  
>>> it.
>>> any comments on that? Has sex been so degraded in the post love-in  
>>> era
>>> that its become so far flung from any sort of love, affection,  
>>> caring?
>>> the following S&M sham seems to confirm just that. I found much of  
>>> the
>>> sexual overtones of this chapter very troubling, soulless, and very
>>> sad.
>>
>> Then you should check out Gravity's Rainbow for even more troubling,
>> soulless, and very sad sex. Of course, the early seventies were  
>> kinda kinky
>> . . .
>>