Every Woman Loves a Fascist, Sylvia Plath thread

[David Morris]

Pynchon focuses often on power inequalities, and their psychological
dynamics.  A very stark example of this was Austra (I think), the very
seductive slave in MD.  She used her sexuality as an expression of the
existing power inequality.  Sometimes the answer to oppression is
submission in so extreme a manner that it shakes the confidence of the
oppressor.

The desire to be fucked by a fascist isn't the same, but in Pynchon's world
they are somehow connected.  Don't ask me how.

David Morris

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> Cannot get to Bekah and Laura's original posting of this seminal line.
> But, thoughts occur. Of course, Laura is right that for Sylvia it was
> written in pain and rage.
>
> But isn't that probably because she was able to see/ feel it in herself (
> probably) and hated
> The truth of it?
>
> And mightn't that truth be because of the nature of the men in her world,
> our American-English Western world? The dare-I-write-an-academic word like
> " patriarchal" world ( certainly not true of a lot of Golden Bough
> cultures, FYI) in which women exist?
>
> Isn't this our world and Pynchon just lives in it? And sees it, often very
> clearly?
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> Sent from my iPad-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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