Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

I would argue that, after some stereotypical women in the short stories and maybe some of V, his victimized women are because they are. In history, in the world. Starting big with V. Not a generational weakness at all but a deep strength.
Gayness when it was still homosexuality IS even more complex up to and thru Cyprian. In the early use, I would argue, since no even half--round characters are, just flat ones he sets up to 
Satirize swiftianly, homosexuality is virtually an embodied symbol in his early work. Problematic maybe but a symbol nonetheless. 

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> On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> He has some generation weaknesses:  His repeated willingly victimized female characters, Maxine was his latest version. GR had some classic gay male stereotype insults.  But those weakness I can overlook in the big picture.
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> David Morris
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>> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Surely fewer women readers, surely. right ladies on the list? I offer simplistically that when he was said to have math and science shit in his early books, that culture-created distance of most women from those subjects created fewer readers.
>> He is a feminist in many essential ways in his vision, I argue.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> > On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:13 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Thanks heaps, Kamil.  Looks to be good reading!
>> >
>> > The Beefheart comparison was probably unfairly frivolous.  Of the po-mo nuts I know, the only one with a posthorn tat's Lisa Yaszek at the school of Literature & Communication at GA Tech.  She used to bang rails with Pat Cadigan.  Now she teaches rambling aspies how to speak without snarling.  It's a living...
>> >
>> > Just got to wondering.  It's an aspect I rarely hear discussed, re: his "audience".  P's never been one to write with an eye toward a broader audience (groaannn) so the majority of his books don't pass that Bechdel test.  Why I continue to dig BE, obv.
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