Fwd: remember all the clothes

[Markekohut]

I am very struck by how, in 1983, Pynchon is still referring to college-age women as " coeds" ? 
Is this a word that lumps and reduces women conceptually?    Is he writing this intro sorta from the perspective
Of their college age selves (aspects of which TRP would within a year apologize for? 


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> Oedipal has to remove when she plays Strip Botticelli? 
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> "Curfews were not the only erotic problem we faced....
> ....a variety of coed undergarments fiendishly designed to delay until 
> Curfew, if not to prevent outright, any access to one's date's  pelvic area."
>                  ----Pynchon's intro to Farina's novel, 1983
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> "[Gnossos ] is susceptible to the thrill of vendetta or karmic adjustment,
> An impulse I suspect isn't entirely absent from why Farina wrote the novel"
>                        ---pynchon 
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> As adumbrated by Pynchon, part of the motivation for Farina's novel was Cornell's
> Crackdown on partiers like him ( including his suspension, although soon rescinded after the protesting) .  
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> So, fiction can be 'karmic adjustment' ? 
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