Thanks, Mark

[Michael Bailey]

Sylvia Plath? Hadn’t run across that poem before. I know, I know, where
have I been? So sue me for Pollyannatude, I’d rather read jollier stuff
most of the time! But I did stumble into a poetry reading a few years ago
where a young woman was expressing similar sentiments towards her own
father at greater length and with great vehemence. So that’s another data
point.

I hadn’t remembered Maxine getting involved with Slagiatt either workwise
or lovewise. Just saw the unraveling of the anagram somewhere (“seemed like
a good idea at the time”) and that’s what chose to stick, memorywise.


Mark Kohut wrote:

Pynchon has this 'insight' into certain kinds of women or else this 'slur'
against women in general:

They like, often against themselves, 'strong', tough, insensitive (to
almost be euphemistic) men, who might
also be described as arrogant, authoritarian men generalized with that
infamous line from Sylvia Plath: Every woman
loves a fascist.