Runaway women in Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Except maybe for that graceful dog, licking.......in vineland
 
Next three uses of grace in AtD refer to common usage, acting with easy kindness to another
in a social situation. Or like that.

From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Runaway women in Pynchon



Like Slothrop and their model, Dorothy, she runs away from and toward Home at the same time; a paradox of all American quest narratatives. Of course, she, like Dorothy, had to find out for herself because that is who she is on a quest to find. Oedipa's waste is never, as in the tragic models, revealed, and so she must live with us, it's the only return permitted. You can never go home again in Pynchon, you can only fly toward it (Grace). 
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