M & D Duck Read: Inconvenient women

[Mark Kohut]

p. 57...."Ev're woman in "Sumatra" is comely and willing"----rings
like a song fantasy line to me, but
can't place if it is...anyone? anyone?...

Also, IS like the women that Melville's protagonist finds on an island
in the Marquesas in Typee....

and is a Paradise fantasy, yes?

And we have the appearance of the concept of inconvenience, larger in
the upcoming novel, of course.....the wills of others in a
relationship, here....oversimply the Other?....

If hell is Other People for Sartre, then Other People are an
Inconvenience in Pynchon? A human blow against having everything your
own way, against "power' without consequences?

A fantasy for Dixon as Rebekah's memory is for Mason but linked as
phantasms 'ever safe from the insults of Time, [not a humanly good
thing?] as the chapter ends.
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