Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

[Michael Bailey]

or like Braveheart, where the king uses his droit de seigneur on the
wrong guy's spouse...
umm, that is an example of something...

in similar fashion it's rather plainly stated that Benny is not of the
social set that Rachel is, and the paterfamiliases in her neighborhood
are never far out of mind, and
perhaps it is them he is trying to put out with his solar micturition;
a temporary pairing in the night fades in the light of day...

so that learning to deal with a de facto class system and his less
than desirable starting place in it gracefully could be a theme as
well...

but Mr Pynchon is much more intricate than that.  Writing about it
makes me realize how he jams a mess o' points together,
and that explicating just one at a time, and not perfectly at that,
fully occupies my talent and shows me new ideas as I try to do so!

Ghood Ghod, V. is good prose!  It's no GR - but what is?  Some of the
settings and slang are 50s vintage, but the questions and themes are
eternal...
well worth poking around in!



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"Reach out in the darkness, and you may find a friend!" - from Friend
and Lover, "Reach out of the Darkness"