Against the Day, still.

[Laura Kelber]

It seems pretty much Women's Lib 101 - Personal Fulfillment. Do you see
something more?

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 12:41 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com wrote:

> Merle's comment comes right after the characterization of Erlys' reaction.
> Which comes right after the q & a.
>
> Merle watches her reaction to Zamboni and sees what happens to her. He
> doesn't get it but he does.
>
> She leaves him and Dally for Zamboni then.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 5, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't understand the "Merle didn't know, he knew" paragraph out of
> context. I don't remember Daly being in a relationship except at the very
> end, with the youngest Traverse? Not sure what you want comments on, Mark.
> Freedom and/or repression in relationships?
>
> Laura
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 7:46 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Anne Tyler has spent a lot of her career exploring
>> this notion with married bourgeois women:
>> '''excuse me, signora...but....have you ever felt that you wished to
>> suddenly
>> disappear, even from a room full of people, just....[makes vanishing signs
>> with his hands] ......gone?"
>>
>> "Me, all the time, why"? ---Erlys.
>>
>> "Could you stand perfectly still while someone throws knives at you"?
>>
>> "Then the beauty swept over her ..like a galvanic shadow,,, as her body
>> took on a
>> "vibrant dark density"...and Merle "did not know what was happening. He
>> did
>> know".
>>
>> There are many other writers too, of course, on this and related aspects
>> including that sixties milestone book *The Feminine Mystique. *
>>
>> Any women on the Plist care to comment on P's presentation of this bit?
>> Esp
>> that great phrase, "vibrant dark density" or-- is it great? A few good men
>> [care to comment]?
>>
>> (I will comment only that two women I've known have told me of leaving
>> long
>> term relationships, not felt as oppressively unhappy,
>> for someone brand-new and hardly known but.....Mr. Right, so to
>> mythologize...)
>>
>>
>> PS. Anne Tyler's first husband was an Iranian-American psychiatrist. She
>> refused to answer any questions about her marriage EVER when interviewed.
>> In fact
>> declared such questions out-of-bounds. Full privacy for him and the
>> marriage they inhabited. I've thought of it as doing half-a-Pynchon re
>> privacy.
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
>