M & D Read: Relevant to Gaze?

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, but one of my goals is to try to articulate some of the multiple edges of
the ambiguities, or what's a great book for?

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:56 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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