CoL49 (3) words she never wanted to hear [PC 40]

[David Morris]

Of course Pynchon deals directly with the subject of abortion in V.
And he seems to treat it as if it were a horror with Rachel Owlglass
committing a terrible sin by getting one.  That segment of V. has
always struck me as weird, extremely anti-liberal, and a leftover
symptom of Pynchon's Roman Catholicism.  Of course in the context of
V. it is akin to Rachel's succumbing to the nose-job, an anti-natural
act not too far removed from replacing real body parts with more
durable, artificial ones.

David Morris

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'll supply page numbers from the Perennial Classics [152 page] edition.
>
> On May 16, 2009, at 11:37 PM, rich wrote:
>
>> Mike Fallopian--for a book so hung up on revelation and otherworldly spirits, there are lots of references to the earthly--female anatomy reproduction doesn't get any more earthly.
>
> Birth and conversely abortion are threads in CoL49.