V - 2 - Your answers questioned

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:57 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Present-day Namibia is harshly anti-gay - one of the results of  
> importing Christian culture.  Pynchon focuses on the other branch (V- 
> section) of the Western incursion.  In this case, it's colonialists  
> going "native." Weissmann (in GR) importing a gay Herero lover;  
> Foppl's guests re-inventing native practices with a decadent Western  
> spin.
>
> Laura

. . . also decadent In that Foppl practices native German practices  
[Fasching/Carnaval is pre christian through and through], rendered  
even more decadent by the flipping of the solar calendar. The  
November/ February "State of siege" of winter runs in the farthest  
reaches south as May/August, inverting Fasching's season.