V-2nd C4 Like the Racket Itself

[alice wellintown]

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> "coeval with the century"
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> I.e., born in 1900, 17 in 1917 ...

Juat another impersonation, another one of Stencil's characters
pretending, in this case, to be a bit older than he is. One year older
to qualify him for service or two years if first Stencil adds a yaer
to his own to meet the good doctor's age and one to the doctor's age
to disguise his youth. Again, Paoloa, could be any age, any
nationality, she knew scraps of languages ....and Esther too, a novel
by Henry Adams, published under a a female pen name, reversing the
tradition and calling attention to the need for a George Eliot or male
pen name, not so for Henry who could get his work published under any
name he chose and chose a women's name. Esther, the character in
Adams's novel, clearly an allusion to the Esther or Myrtle of the
biblical texts, saves the jews from genocide by, in part, cahnging her
name, by impersonation under tyranny. Why does Adams and then Pynchon
fix on this idea of gender reversal--Oedipus becomes oedipa mass?