Why Windust & Maxine?

[Fiona Shnapple]

Why is Frenesi / Maxine attracted to fascists, to cops...etc.

Contrary to what the reviews, critics and some here have argued, I
think P does a great job of laying this out in VL, an even better job
of laying it out here in BE. Some may not be convinced by his
argument, but that doesn't mean it
s not spelled out in black and white.

Take Maxine, cause she's the latest, and cause she's got the same
attraction. What is it about her that makes her say Good Night to
Nick? That makes her take his cock through her torn hoes?

There are several causes not one, but they all spring from the same
place, her desire to use her fecund force to counter the man and his
machine force.But she can't counter the machine force with penis, a
gun, or even a camera/penis/gun. Maxine has guns and she uses them.
She has boys, only boys, and she plays their gun game, thinking that
the shooter might give them the skills needed to work in her calling.
But she is deceiving herself. Her force is so great, so natural, but
she doesn't know it, and even when she realizes it, the boys are
moving toward Horst, she'll have to deal with that, and she can't hold
on to them, she has to let them go. But the Sisterhood, her's is with
child, March is reconciled with Tallis, is a force still, if only they
would stop playing at the gun games of the men, who, of course, have
not the great power of life.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:19 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Her making Brock mad by her mere existence is understandable, but her
> attraction to him, less so.
>
>
> On Saturday, December 14, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
>>
>> Terry Caesar's article, "MOtherhood and Post-Modernism" is worth
>> reading on this question.
>>
>> Motherhood and Postmodernism
>> Author(s): Terry Caesar
>> Source: American Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp.
>> 120-140
>>
>>
>> And here, a wonderful piece on The Girl.
>>
>>
>> http://sfonline.barnard.edu/gender-justice-and-neoliberal-transformations/the-girl-mergers-of-feminism-and-finance-in-neoliberal-times/
>>
>> Pynchon is still re-working Orwell's Prole Woman with red arms (1984);
>> she sings and hangs clothes and is the ignorant fertility of
>> revolution. But her fecundity, as with Maxine's, though she produces
>> only boys, is a force that makes Brock Vond mad.
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