Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

[Michael Bailey]

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oddly enough, nobody really did, did they?
touches some religious chords, taboos even:

like the soldiers gambling for Jesus's clothes, only these guys are
gambling for jimmy hats...

it's possible that young Catholic Pynchon was anti-condom (aren't they
anti all forms of bc?)
("the pity is, he'll never use them..." not, maybe, 'cos he ain't
gettin' any, but because it's against
his religion?)

and was making Benny the angel of death to all those unconceived
babies ("what of all the God-possibled souls we nightly impossibilize"
sez Stephen in _Ulysses_)
although you could almost as easily make it out as he is hanging
mezuzahs against the angel of unwanted conceptions (which is how I
read it originally, but pretty sure that isn't what the text said...)

now if it's "the more the merrier" I can't help but semi-agree, but if
it's "every little sperm is holy and the heck with what the lady
wants" then I gotta dissent a bit...

sensitive topics


-- 
Yippy dippy dippy,
Flippy zippy zippy,
Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
- Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")