Pynchons Problem

[Michael Bailey]

and fu'thermo' --

> guys like Theodore Roosevelt gathered mono-sexual throngs to
> perpetrate hideous imperialist violence;

guys like, well how about in the 1800s the entire US Congress - all
guys in them days - and Skull and Bones (the 20th-Century introduction
of females to which was anathema to William F Buckley eg) and all the
all-male prep schools and Ivy League schools and professional
associations and labor unions (darn it!) and geez there's such a
wealth to pick upon!  I mean, Lee and Grant and their all-male armies,
for Pete's sake!  Dr Johnson and "a woman preaching is like a dog
standing on its hind legs"...Frickn' *Lincoln" his own self (as
Ishmael Reed points out in _Flight to Canada_) freed only the slaves
in the Confederate states in his famous declaration and didn't believe
blacks should be allowed to vote
(http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/SlaveryAndEmancipation/lincolnonslavery.html
)

Those guys with *their* homo bonding and racist raisin' tyrannized and
dominated women and foreigners and it is their xenophobic echo issuing
from the petticoat brigade's mouths in the first place.

For 3 guys of different backgrounds and race to mingle and converse
friendly-like -- darn it, 'twas revolutionary and inspiring as Twain
meant it to be and inserting a subtext onto these dudes is to ignore
almost all that is decent and true and good!

It's even an insult to homo-eroticism, for that matter.