COL49 - Chap 1: Roseman

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut sez:

> I think TRP, as we see in V. and would come to see in GR, 
> sees the Man-run world, patriarchy, old-boy interlocking 
> networks of business and war-mongering as a big part of the 
> Historical Problem... 

> (On the other hand, Oedipa has nothing but "gut fear and 
> female cunning" to understand.   (Is 'female cunning" 
> supposed to be a compliment, ya think?)

Later we'll be hearing about "the entropies of lovable but scatterbrained
Mother Nature" (GR 324) -- which I've never thought was exclusively
Weissman's voice. And about a child in Bad Karma's mud who "came up out of
the black radiance of herself to find her again, Shekhinah, bride, queen,
daughter. And mother. Motherly as sheltering mud and glowing pitchblende—”
(479)

Sure Dad's a Problem, but Mom's shelter is ambiguous at best.