VL-IV: Chap7- Floozy with an Uzi

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, I think Pynchon might be showing how violence, including a whole
culture's attraction to it, is protofascism, so to speak.

I can remember when magazine covers moved from buff athletic women
to some with martial arts poses and guns. (New York Magazine, for one)

The second wave feminism of the second half of the 20th Century
had many who took it from a push for justice to just pushing it---for
power?



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:28:35 PM
Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap7- Floozy with an Uzi

well I knew somebody did (think GR sexist)...
my mind is a ball of confusion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BJOXopGW8g


truth is, I had not realized till today that the allure of the ninja
babe here depicted is in fact cousin-german to Frenesi's thing for men
in uniform.

in general,  what values are they (F on the couch in front of pictures
of Ponch and John, the wedding  guests offering marriage to the girlie
with a gun) selecting for, in feeling this attraction?
physical strength, which is buffness; to some extent youth which often
goes hand-in-hand with vigor; perhaps a proclivity to violent action
--- but in fact, isn't the offer of sex a way of subverting this
violence, a willingness to engage quality against quality ---
emblematized in the pictures Prairie sees of F fondling the underside
of gun barrels?