Peter Coviello: Vineland Reread

[David Morris]

Wow.  So you gather that VL mostly a satire cartoon about US sexual/(world)
politics?  That’s probably why I hate it.

David Morris

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:25 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pynchon's deepest vision of sexual relations in in a patriarchal
> power-domination, politically sado-masochististic
> Western world, led by the US.
>
> We all know the key scene in GR where he "obscenely' embodied this, said
> the patriarchal power structure
> of Columbia University's Board of Trustees.
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 7:14 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Robert, sexism in VL, shortlist:
>>
>> 1.  Frenesi betrays almost everyone she knows **for no other offered
>> reason**   than that he’s a manly cop in a uniform.
>>
>> 2.  Prairie almost masturbates as Brock Vond flies  away, wishing he’d
>> swoop back down for her.
>>
>> These two most central female characters in COL49 desire, deep down, to be
>> dominated by men in uniforms.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> > David, I'm curious as to why you call it sexist, and sorry you dislike
>> it.
>> >
>> >
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