Pynchons Problem

jochen stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 06:33:03 CDT 2012


Mickey and Melanie in Leonard's The Switch (1978) and most of his
women afterwards, especially Jackie Burke in Rum Punch (1992),
beautifully rendered by Pam Grier in Tarantino's Jackie Brown.

2012/3/13 Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
> Who,  in y'all's  opinion,  is a well-written female character of the post-WWII era  - use any author, any book.
>
> Bekah
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Might start that way, but she, unlike what Benny sez, learns something by the end...
>>
>> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 6:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: Pynchons Problem
>>
>> Oedipa is a perfect fool; she could be Daisy Buchanan's daughter, a
>> perfect fool.
>>
>>
>



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