M & D Read

[alice malice]

Page 57, the last sentence of the final paragraph for this chapter
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"So they pass, Mason's women and Dixon's, with more in common than
either Astronomer will ever find out about, for even phantasms may
enjoy private lives,--shadowy, whispering, veil'd, ever safe from the
Insults of Time."


The Astronomers play a game.

There must be obstacles. For Dixon, "attendant Inconveniences", "Wills
and Preferences", though these women must be "comely and willing", and
for Mason, "fair copies" of "forbidden" Rebekah.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> p. 68....Pynchon's comic genius:
>
> "Though he [Cornelius] usually departs with an Erection, it is
> possible that he is feeling the pain of
> an ineptly shot Beast."
>
> Above, his wife, treated like the stereotype of an all-powerful Queen,
> like Cleopatra, the surreal absurd of White Privilege? ....is all the
> time Pynchon spends on the women, sorta about White Matriarchy here in
> Cape Town? Whereas V. and GR explored Maleness as destructive?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l