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

[Keith McMullen]

That's one possibility. Another is that Pynchon's plot lines are there as part of a creation of fiction and do not represent his personal viewpoints at every turn. He could be all about choice and hate the Catholic position, yet have the horror there to represent the Catholic position.

On Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 12:37PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.