Runaway women in Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

YES...I did think of her AFTER, hours after this post---in fact after attending that Yale lecture but
wanted to see if anyone was reading these posts. Smile..
 
Figured it might be you or Bekah..........
 
It is the way she does walk away questinly that is so different from the way the others are presented....
Bolters, mostly...against not towards....or towards freedom not answers......
 
 
 


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From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Runaway women in Pynchon


And don't forget Oedipa, who doesn't run, but walks purposefully towards. 

LK

-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mark Kohut 
>Sent: Feb 16, 2012 7:56 AM 
>To: pynchon -l 
>Subject: Runaway women in Pynchon 
>
>
>Troth---Lew's wife
>Erlys----Merle's wife
>          ----Merle keeps sayin Dally's gonna bolt when old enough
>Edwarda Beef (w maid, Vaseline)----Scarsdale Vibe's wife (she half-leaves)
>Lake  ----Webb's first daughter
>more to come in AtD but also
> 
>Frenesy
>Doc's first love
>
>pretty thematic, I'd say. Unhappy women wanting out---and taking their ways. 
>The feminine (whatever that is, but is it in The White Goddess' wake/) will out in
>the patriarchal, authoritarian culture (AtD anyway)? 
>
>And thematic re the men: all unhappy at their loss....their life's love lost........
>Men more 'romantic'---in psychological sense--than women, yes? 
>goes back to ole Benny, yes?........(was just reminded of how Webb lost
>his first love too)
>
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