Fwd: The Small Rain redux, part 2

[Mark Kohut]

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From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:03 AM
Subject: The Small Rain redux, part 2
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>


" there was in her eyes something that might have been a dismayed
and delayed acknowledgment that what was hazarding this particular
plowboy was deeper than any problem of seasonal change or doubtful
fertility,
Precisely as he had recognized earlier that her capacity to give involved
nothing over or above the list of enumerated wares....[they are enumerated
in one
of TRP's first but short lists]...and THEREFORE [my caps] he assumed toward
her
that same nonchalant compassion which he felt for the heroines of sex
novels, or
for the burned-out but impotent good guy rancher in a western. He let her
undress
apart from him, until, standing there ion nothing but T-shirt and baseball
cap, puffing placidly
on the stogie he heard her from the mattress, whimpering." p. 50 SL

Discuss. if you want. One tack: reliable or unreliable narrator here?


"....they lay not touching. "In the midst of great death, " Levine said,
'the little death".
And later, "Ha. It sounds like a caption in LIFE.In the midst of LIFE. We
are in death. Oh god'.

Discuss in regard to narrator's problem. Maybe.


Tangential. Joseph Heller once said his novel *Something Happened* was
about time, a friend
told me. I looked up the interview. It was about TIME, he said, working
there.
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