Runaway women in Pynchon

[Bekah]

Oh the little searches we could do if this book were on Kindle. 

Bekah

On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

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