Doggie-style, generally speaking

[Mark Thibodeau]

Very cool. Look forward to reading this when I get some free time after
blogging my suggested reading list for today's bloggin'!

Cheers!
Jerky

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM, jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> Operating on the assumption that nothing (no pun intended) in "Pynchon" is
> gratuitous, he does seem to have a particular predilection for the
> doggie-style position of intercourse. It appears in most of his works and
> might indicate some sort of thematic trend. It takes on a darker tone in
> Bleeding Edge. We are given more of the viewpoint of the receiver, I think,
> than in the other works. Somehow, Maxine's sensibilities manage to reverse
> the dog (That's dog with a lower case d) a bit.
>
> D. Meghan Pye has put forth an interesting string of bits in the essay:
> "Borrowed Time and Millennial Rupture: An Analysis of Thomas Pynchon's
> Bleeding Edge." (sorry if this has already been referenced) which, after
> getting through the initial Zizek, Badiou and Baudrillard, I found helpful
> in understanding both Bleeding Edge, as well as, those slippery euro
> intellectuals.
>
> Find it here:    https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43028414.pdf
>
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