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[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:55 PM, rich wrote:

> 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

Damn! Traction! Yeah, Cyprian is headed towards a state akin to  
Avalokitesvara.

And hey—D.L. may be the most throughly "human" of all of Pynchon's  
"characters." Think about it.

Very strong, albeit odd, feminist streak in TRP.

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