suddenly fascinated by feminism

[Madeleine Maudlin]

There was a reason, I'm full of reasons today! that I was interested in
commenting on The Dude and all his feminist admirers and or detractors,
whatever the feminist attack may be, praising a work for showing male loss
of the myth, the tradition, or criticizing works for being last gasps at
standing erect with the myths, whathaveyou, or my interest starting in what
I feel must be the case with feminist interpretations, comments upon,
whatever you call them, of Pynchon's work, which would be fun actually,
knowing the works are patently misogynist but interpreting them as though
they were obviously *really* serious feminists stances.

Because, for example.  I'm on page 200 of Gravity now, when I get around to
reading it.  But I've been reading slow, and I do enjoy an imbibering of
various unholy substances on occasion, perhaps my memory is not what God
Intended (Sheldrake may have a thing or two to say about that! about which,
well, obviously neurons and genes don't hold memory and habits, our whole
science paradigm we live in is so frikkin *weak*!), but there is

one woman in the first 200 pages, Katje, and her *entire* role is fucking,
first Mexico, then Sloth-Pop.  Oh sure, talk all you want about her vital
role in the Visitation, whatever.  She fucks the important men, that's what
she does.  or is it a different chick who fucks Mexico?  He's like four
months ago for me now.

I'm on page 200 of AtD, where's the women.  There's the one who I've heard
discussed numerous times in the last few months who ends up fucking the man
who killed her father.  Again, talk all you wan about...

Now I'm on 130ish of MandD.  You have the four Vroom women, and the Slave.
 There's also Euphrenia, who has promise, lovely name anyway.  (Speaking of
characters, why is the fellow Astronomer on St. Helena called Mescaline,
for peet's sake?  Jeez, Pynchon has a one tract mind with the psychedelia--)

Of course I'm no scholar, am I!  Mr.K's occasional reminder that reading is
rereading, well, if that's the case, I can think of *two* books I've ever
actually read... Ah hell, maybe there's a couple of his I've read a couple
of times...who remembers these things?

No wait, three!

And to think, I think Nabokov the bombiest!

Something tells me I no little or nothing about feminism?  Or Pynchons
work, or the Coens' work, or anything.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Madeleine Maudlin  wrote:
> > Oh, I went ahead and clicked on the link.  It's like a term paper!  I
> > thought, coming from Mr. Bailey, it must be like a serious professional
> > grade essay.
>
> heehee yes, of course
>
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