BTZ42 p. 88 reasons

[Smoke Teff]

I really like the riff--more or less channeling Pointsman, it seems--on the
sexual market. Processing human coupling, human pleasure--and so much more,
especially (as the Roger/Jessica sections make us aware of) during the long
winter of Wartime--in terms of the marketplace.

"What *does* make the little doxies do it for free?"

Does this mean Pointsman pays for it?

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doncha just love that paragraph riff on possible explanations for what
> happens around Slothrop?
> This paragraph actually moves the desire that foretells the rocket mostly
> to the women's--the doxies--desire. WIth that connection to " free love"
> and more lovemaking the nearer the possibility of death. For them.
>
> Here, Slothrop's penis is akin to a heat-seeking object itself. Led to his
> girls amidst the cues about the rocket attacks that no one is subtle enough
> of heart to see, so the riff goes.
>
> BUT "When we find it, we'll have shown again the stone determinancy  of
> everything, of every soul."
>
>   Isn't that " again" one of the most brilliantly placed words in this
> brilliant book, reminding me of Babel's remark about the perfectly placed
> period and
>
> perhaps again making The case at the narrator level that Monte Davis is
> always emphasizing??
> [ can't speak w surety re Davis, of course]
> Sent from my iPad's -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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