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[rich]

absolutely. I wonder if Geli's counterpart in AtD is Cyprian (a man woman or
woman man)--out of all the screw ups in AtD, man I think he's the best
situated, tho he's gotta go thru some shit to get to that point. Geli is
good to go from the start but she stands out in GR as really "with it"
throughout.  and I love her fucking owl ;)

rich

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> O
>
> In any case, I see oodles of stuff in Pynchon's writing that relates to
> ecofeminism. It's odd, my initial run-in with T'n'A resulted in a flame war.
> Subsequent interactions were more copacetic. I think the feminist streak
> starts warming up in CoL49, resulting in sometimes confused messages. But
> isn't it Geli Tripping, of all people, who seems to be on the right track in
> GR? There's so much Magical Realism in TRP's post GR career it seems a
> little coarse to note that the author has become ever more obsessed with
> ever more heretical ideas, Western Occult is all in there, right on the
> surface, nothing "occult" about that. But I say that the exploration of the
> realm of heresy [for the hell of it]  is the central McGuffin in the
> author's canon. In any case, I do believe that T'n'A's focusing on the
> increasingly feminist skew of Pynchon's writing is right on track. The CIA's
> in there [just a population count, Jim] California is the map but Feminism
> is the territory in all three—The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland and Inherent
> Vice. Weird, eh?
>
> Blame it on the moon.
>
>
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