Why Windust & Maxine?

[David Morris]

OK.  I buy that this schema fits P's repeated woman/cop coupling.  But I
think it points to P's insistence on fitting the world into his image of it
which really hobbles his art.  It is a similar strategy to linking to a
previous master's work.  It is like trying to make a mathematical equation
into art.  He does that in GR.  maybe he should eat some shrooms.

David Morris

On Sunday, December 15, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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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