M & D Read: Relevant to Gaze?

[alice malice]

> When I first read the bodice-ripping scene, I did think Mason might
> not want to, hence the bodice-ripping parody.-

The parody, yes. But the ambiguity too. Ambiguity is one of Pynchon's
most powerful weapons. Reading and re-reading, and reading and
re-reading with a group, we are left with ambiguity. And laughter. We
have no choice but to give in to the humor, some of it directed at our
desperate attempts to draw a straight line with an ampersanded
narrative. What difference does it make?

I always wonder why Mason doesn't masturbate. Even Mason must
masturbate. Then again, the reader is jerking off enough so....ah,
that Pynchon...he is a postmodern Master Bates.
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