Bad Sneakers & a Fina Salada

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:48 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I doubt Pynchon would write or think this now.  What's odd about the  
> comment though, is that it foreshadows the brutal gang-rape of the  
> young Herero girl in Chapter 9.  Young Pynchon certainly never  
> implies that that girl was asking for it.  Did Pynchon mature  
> between the writing of these two chapters, or does he think that a  
> free woman deserves rape, where a slave is subjected to it?
>
> Laura

If we take into consideration the overall quality of writing in the  
two chapters as any indication, yes -- the young author appears to  
have matured somewhat by the time he writes Chapter Nine's wormhole  
into Gravity's Rainbow.

Of course, one might reasonably ask about multiple narrators in V.,  
much as there are [more obviously, perhaps] multiple narrators in  
Against the Day, its closest cousin among the other novels.