Pynchons Problem

[alice wellintown]

It ain't no Pynchon problem; just the way things be in American
fiction after Huck, so sez He-Man Hemingway. Papa wasn't just showing
off his white elephants like hills and his elephant guns when he
claimed that all American Literature was a tributary sprung from
Twain's Finn. Heck, don't it make perfect sense? what Huck is about is
running off from civilizing ladies what won't let a body be. Little
boys on the inside. No shit.  Them hills just needs a little air let
out is all; no sense aborting a perfectly good partnership by bringing
a child into the mix. That sure does ring a bell for whom and who and
you and me. Call it gynophobic if it keeps the feminist in you
smirking, but that old self reliance of Emerson is a boy's book
adventure writ large on this continent after them Dutch sailors set
eyes on its pandering trees what whispered before Gatsby got his big
car and pool, even before Nick's folks got into hardware. It is lovely
on a raft. Now that's a passage that Pynchon wouldn't have a problem
with. Two males out there naked as the day they was born. Twain didn't
need no females of substance no how. He can dress a boy up like a girl
or wheel on an old bitch with the best of them. That's writing. What
has Twain to say about females? He don't put no stock in females
whatever. Roughing it is a sport for males. Aint it? Now I know that
Pynchon is a city boy now and that he got himself a family, but he
don't drink from no woman's romance books like the Brits. He American.
Got a problem with that?