She's Tar Now, or Again, though their systems keep her Loe Ffler

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I like the free-range associations.....yes, Maxine is a heroine but ......partakes of the societal problems....

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On Nov 24, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know, but there is so much to Tar in Pynchon that I can't quite help
> myself from thinking, as Maxine does of her X (her x-name, x-husband,
> before she switched back to Tar, to Tar and to Now, the narrative's
> first page), in names of Cigars that sometimes may be names of Cigars
> or "other women" her x may have "smoked" or only (Freudian?) Cigars.
> As several critics have shown (K Hume, D., Eddins ...) the products of
> organic chemistry are, plastics etc. are not found in Nature and
> transcend the Natural cycle of life and decay. So, Maxine is Tar,
> again, or Now. What does this matter? Tar over the Lot? Paving Stones
> over the beach. Sous les pavés, la plage!’ Capitalism's Estate is
> Real, is Real Estate, and Now, Non-real estate.
> And so, we must love Tarnow, for she is, despite her paranoid trips to
> the toilet, our only chance of putting the Periods, the bloody spots
> in WASTE.
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