CoL 49 (1) love, anyway [PC 6]

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, yes.....

I still see this, after V. ,after The White Goddess inspiration, after Adams' Virgin----yes, THAT compassionate VIRGIN---and the Dynamo, as Pynchon's embrace of The Feminine......

of which P reveals (thru Oedipa) the other side: "female cunning"....to solve the mystery of 'magic'...



----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:35:11 PM
Subject: CoL 49 (1) love, anyway [PC 6]

Oedipa is empathetic:

    You comfort them when they wake pouring sweat or crying out
    in the language of bad dreams, yes, you hold them, they calm
    down, one day they lose it:  she knew that.

. . . this innate tenderness makes it very easy to like Oedipa & her reflexive acts of kindness. The way she is always present in the novel makes her unique in Pynchon's writing.