Runaway women in Pynchon

[Alex Colter]

On of my very favorites is Mitzi from M&D, on the run from her husband
Peter & his new friend Jesus, in a carriage and later Mr Knockwood's Inn
with the Surveyors, meets Armand the Frenchman etc, tho she eventually
returns...
also in M&D there's that one (nameless?) gal from the Jesuit Harem, as told
in 'The Ghastly Fop', who escapes Quebec with Capt. Zhang,  and who Mason
insists looks exactly like Rebecca....eventually she leaves withat Tsuza,
perhaps preferring Feminine Company.

Would Geli Tripping be considered Runaway?

Good topic.


On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Boy I got behind, eh?
>
> Bek
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> > 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......
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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