Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[Kamil Prusakowski]

Nice paper partly about gender in AtD but not specifically about women
https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v1.2.45/

I don't think that gender and sexuality/sexualization of his characters is
what makes Pynchon's "fanbase" mostly male.
a-and
the only polish Pynchon scholar that I know about is a woman

2015-09-09 22:08 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> It was Laurie Anderson's song "Gravity's Angel" that got me to read GR, my
> first Pynchon read.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1v5UdYpStw
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Probably true but a fine woman, sadly departed, introduced me to the joys
>> of Pynchon.
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, basically. Why? I ask ---in the spirit Mike Jing does re a phrase.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Following my third read of BE with Against The Day.  Because I've been
>>> > paring my library throughout BE, I wrestled with whether to keep it or
>>> give
>>> > it away.  Inherent Vice went.  Ultimately Maxine stayed.
>>> >
>>> > Against The Day, there's no debate.  I'm loving the legs off it.  But
>>> I'm
>>> > waiting to get to where women have a fair (i.e. less gendered) stake
>>> in the
>>> > story.  Something not predicated on boy eyeballs girl.  Might be a
>>> minute.
>>> > Only just getting past T.W.I.T.
>>> >
>>> > Anyroad.  Point being, I wonder how many women have the time of day for
>>> > Pynchon.  Has anyone polled this?  Or is it generally assumed that
>>> he's kind
>>> > of the lit equivalent of Captain Beefheart, predominantly of interest
>>> to
>>> > boys who delight in cacophony?
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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