M & D Read

[alice malice]

When it comes to Love,  our boys have far more in common than they let
on. Religion? How about this: our boys  are, when it comes to Love,
Catholics. Yes, Western Man is Love with Love. And he must have an
obstacle. A childish game, perhaps, but this, I suggest, is important
to our understanding of these Western Lovers.

 Denis de Rougemont’s _Love in the Western World_

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:49 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Page 57, the last sentence of the final paragraph for this chapter
> .
> "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?
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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