Bad Sneakers & a Fina Salada

Albert Rolls alprolls at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 7 15:26:17 CDT 2010




> My complaint isn't that Fina wants sex.  It's the idea that, because she 
> wants sex, she's asking for a brutal gang bang.
>
> LK

Well that is a valid criticism, one Pynchon would accept. ""Modern readers 
will be, at least, put off by an unacceptable level of racist, sexist and 
proto-Fascist talk throughout this story ["Low-Lands"]. I wish I could say 
that this is only Pig Bodine's voice, but, sad to say, it was also my own at 
the time. The best I can say for it now is that, for its time, it is 
probably authentic enough." 





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