Is the Tristero Made up of Women?

[rich]

I guess to be more clear is that there seem to be (at least in Ch 3)
alot of hints to a destructive female force associated with Tristero,
no? not that the Tristero is made up of women exclusively.

rich

On 5/18/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Wowee...Zounds!......a wholly new, circumstantialized
> perspective............
> Why not?.....my own tower-encased narcissism did PROJECT males......
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> Gonna now recheck EVERY mention...........................
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> 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?
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> ----- 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?
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> at least in Chapter 3 much of the references to the Tristero are
> linked to a female--. for example:
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> 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"
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> The Mask of Tristero is female?
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> rich
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