CH 15 the hard on

[Mark Kohut]

There is an upcoming sexual encounter in IV that I will argue is a hint-allusion to sado-masochistic sex ala GR...

--- On Sun, 11/22/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: CH 15 the hard on
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 9:00 AM
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:45 AM, Mark
> Kohut wrote:
> 
> > Some of the relationships, some of the sex in IV, are
> indicative of TRPs extensive use of (often unhealthy) sex in
> GR as metaphor? That is, the seemingly real sex in IV is an
> allusion, so to speak in our allusive way, to sex as insight
> in GR?
> 
> Inherent Vice captures the vibe and a lot of quotidian
> details of life in L.A. in the early seventies. A lot of
> what I witnessed back then could be filed up "The Sexual
> Revolution," what with the pill making it easier to be
> sleazier—lots of casual hook-ups and disconnections. A lot
> of the sex in GR strikes me as reflecting sexual activity in
> L.A., circa 1970. The scene with Doc 'n Luz in the abandoned
> apartment complex with jets flying low overhead is similar
> to scenes of coitus in GR where V-2's are dropping all over
> London. Scenes of S & M rendered in an explicit fashion
> in GR are set offstage in IV—we are present to witness the
> scars but not the scarring. With Doc as IV's semi-omniscient
> eye I'd gather that TRP heard of and collected tales of S
> & M second-hand. But that's merely conjecture.