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

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue May 19 15:22:11 CDT 2009


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.
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not sure you have to be a RC to find something like abortion if not
horrible at the least troubling
There are a couple of scenes in the documentary Lake of Fire that are pretty sad
beyond all the politics and bullshit and religious nuts, the sight of
a little ill-formed hand amongst the remains of the procedure is truly
horrible
i'm not making any judgements here just to be clear
rich



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