Why Windust & Maxine?

[David Morris]

Funny, I just ran across this blog synopsis of a recent right wing
columnist's (Ross Douthat) musings:

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1262844

Parents have a girl, suddenly realize that liberal men are indecisive wimps
who will only cause their girls misery, and the result is scorn for clean
air regulation and a deep desire to see tough, steely-eyed men like Dick
Cheney deciding their daughter's future. *Quod erat demonstrandum*.

On Sunday, December 15, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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> 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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