Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

[Michael Bailey]

 Ian Livingston wrote:
> Well, yeah, but.... One needn't be either Catholic or
> pro-overpopulation to resist the use of condoms. I mean, one can argue
> quite successfully that condoms encourage sexual profligacy and
> irresponsibility. Pynchon was raised Catholic, but a few years in the
> Navy can really bust a bubble. Just sayin'....
>

yes!  there's more than a hint of "this sporting life is killin' me" in V.
The parties in Sudwest are the logical conclusion of sex sought for
sensation and not procreation, urges unseated from their evolutionary
reason for being, and perhaps the surrounding injustice bears some
imprint of the same impulse

> Could be he's pointing out something more. Somewhat to do with orderly
> herd-behavior. As the Angel (many resonances already with Rilke at
> this point) Benny might be emblematic of the Great Random, the Fertile
> Idea of Anarchy, or something to do with the significance of the
> Individual in the Group....
>

ooh, that could be fun!  see, all the cabins of the vacation lodge,
where people go to recreate, and Profane going forth adding a semiotic
pseudo-Semitic message to the architecture

then too there is the fact that's he's tacking them up, so there's
like a hole in them

which is like a kind of detournement of the whole condom concept

but also the kind of hysterical mad thing a very young man does in the
mystifying presence of sex, and its equally mystifying withdrawal


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