anyone see a Mason & Dixon resonance here?

[Ray Easton]

Ian Livingston wrote:
> I never understood the quick leap to homoeroticism. 

Right or wrong, Fiedler's argument can hardly be called a quick leap.  
And the rest of the points you make below are straw men in the case of 
Fielder.

Ray

> My take is that it
> is largely projection. Are all women friends unconsumated lesbians,
> too? Our society is in deep shit if every friendship is Freudian when
> everyone who puts a good, solid half hour of research into it knows
> Freud's methods and conclusions were unsupported and thoroughly
> mistaken. Then again, maybe the wish that Freud's oversimplifications
> were acceptable that has contributed to put our society into such deep
> shit....
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:10 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>   
>> Read Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel for a rich
>> discusision of unconsumated homoerotic love as an enduring theme in American
>> fiction.  Two men lighting out across the country.  It doesn't begin with
>> Pycnhon.
>>
>>
>>