V-2nd C4 Like the Racket Itself

[Ian Livingston]

Alice asks: Why does Adams and then Pynchon
> fix on this idea of gender reversal--Oedipus becomes oedipa mass?
>

I reply, ask Tiresias: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiresias.html

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:44 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "coeval with the century"
>>
>> 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?
>



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