V-2nd: Grasping and not...

[Mark Kohut]

Emma writes: 

For sure a fear of commitment, maybe a fear of not being able to see 'beyond himself' in order to commit. 
And more. See below.

Acute, I say, adding this obvious ob: Benny makes his 'afraid of human loneliness' on the ferry deck right after leaving this woman
who seems to want to start a relationship!..........

Imagine when he is REALLY ALONE??...or rather what this says about Benny P?


 



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From: Emma Wrigley <ecwrigley at excite.co.uk>
To: markekohut at yahoo.com
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 4:58:31 PM
Subject: Re: V-2nd: Grasping and not...


>p. 13 perennial edition: He had no impulse to bring her closer. "Whatever you 
>decide". 
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>Madonna, he thought, I have a dependent now.
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>Fear of commitment, as the contemporary cliche goes 
>but..........................
>differently expressed?............I could riff on it and might but, for now
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>Thoughts from anyone else?
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>"Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness..."

For sure a fear of commitment, maybe a fear of not being able to see 'beyond himself' in order to commit. If he is always a stranger in a strange land then his eyes will always be inward (protectively). Commitment necessitates becoming one with this alien environment and yet his greatest fear is being alone there, where 'nothing lives but himself'. An easy way to get sick of yourself is an inability to stop analysing...and being driven to be alone.

(or atleast somesuch that I scrawled in my margin an age ago...
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