M& D Read

[Mark Kohut]

p. 62. Jeet, 16, is obsess'd with her Hair, changing it all the time.
"Change your hair, change your life"---Inherent Vice.

p. 64. "in here it begins to smell like the Slaves' Chambers."
Why?

---all Three are "Trying without success to avoid all Gaze-catching"
Gaze-catching from each other, esp Johanna, and Mason? A curious
way for TRP to indicate some feelings of shame or guilt?

Looks, Gazes are all over the novel so far. Wha?

The male gaze, the male Look, is one of the set pieces in Sartre's
Being & Nothingness which has had an afterlife. he did a phenomenological riff
on men seeing women as an image, the female body as object.....

Then, Beauvoir's account of women's diverse interiorizations of the
male gaze involves a creative reworking of Sartre's  ...

Does this apply, anyone think?
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