Is the Tristero Made up of Women?

[Mark Kohut]

Wowee...Zounds!......a wholly new, circumstantialized perspective............
Why not?.....my own tower-encased narcissism did PROJECT males......

Gonna now recheck EVERY mention...........................

But if the Tristero IS some kind of alternative something (communication system), why
might it not be 'feminine' in this perhaps-feminist novel about the male-built tower that
was America then? 



----- Original Message ----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:52:49 PM
Subject: Is the Tristero Made up of Women?

at least in Chapter 3 much of the references to the Tristero are
linked to a female--. for example:

who first steers Oedipa to the Courier's Tragedy?  one of the Paranoid's chicks
where does Oedipa first see the message sent from WASTE--in the ladies bathroom
when the black-clad figures appear in the play they are described as
effeminate--they are assumed to be men but maybe they're women?
Oedipa backstage sees a girl removing fake blood who motions her into
mirror-filled region(?)--Niccollo's blood?
references to the Maenids--The maenids were wild and were known to rip
men apart in their crazed dancing--Niccollo is murdered by three
figures with a "dancer's grace"-suddenly in lithe and terrible
silence"-which oddly connects to the Baudelaire's poem which describes
the beauty of the sculpted figure as "twin goddesses present, grace
and force" and "what unknown evil harrows her lithe side"

The Mask of Tristero is female?


rich