BtZ42/10 Stone-white cervix

[Mark Kohut]

Demonic vision: racial fantasy and southern fiction - Page 133
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For Pynchon's black men are touched by the white psychological process
which associates the Negro's color with death: Shit, now is the color white
folks are afraid of. Shit is the presence of death, not some abstract-arty
character with a scythe ...
Thomas Pynchon - Page 197
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The simpleminded Marvy sees blacks as bestial threats to American purity,
while the more complex Tchitcherine reacts to ... insistence on ignoring
death: Shit, now, is the color white folks are afraid of. ... Together they
are a long skin surface  ...

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 3:09 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> And he's being impregnated by a big brown shlong.  Isn't there someplace
> in GR where Pynchon says whites fear blacks because their skin is the color
> of shit?  Maybe that's in V.
>
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> On Saturday, May 21, 2016, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 63 (Virgin pagination) While shit is prime reification in the Freudian
>> context, here the child, first giving back what makes him an adult,
>> including alcohol, is being born back through the "stone-white cervix".
>>
>> Also note the various signs or colors of coldness (stone-white,
>> porcelain, silver) contrasted with organic brown. Animate-inanimate.
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