IV Killing Puck

[alice wellintown]

Romance in the Western World. A Pynchon source. The Zoyd and Hector
partnership is obviously the closest to these two in IV. As I said, we
can read Bigfoot's love for his dead partner as a courtly love. That
is, it is idealized because it is dead, like chivalry. Mark D.
Hawthorne has traced P's homoerotic "continuum" from the Slow Learner
tales to the novels...jargon and buttercups and  whatknots to plow
through, but worth putting on a baseball cap for.


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> "It was a romance over the years at least as persistent as Sylvester and
> Tweety's."
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:50 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> I'ts more dialectic than debate; more conversation than argument. We
>> can discard the word "partner" if that helps us to improve our reading
>> of the relationship.
>
>