Chap 23 Where murder smells and hardons and getting answers make Maxine wet.

[Mark Kohut]

I might say that she allows the uncertainty of her feelings, her changing
feelings therefore many changing thoughts--so often we hear of her
instincts---so she learns more of herself every
chapter.......like most of us but not in her dangerous, adventurous,
exploratory way...Yes, I agree, TRP created a rich, rich emotionally
"contradictory' character.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:53 AM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
wrote:

> Maxine is a wonderful character- complicated and interesting,. She draws
> the reader in. We learn a lot by her pursuits of fraudulence on all levels,
> not least of which is her all too human inability to know herself
> completely; a mirror perhaps of the limitations of objectivity. Windust is
> a dickhead, but there's no proof that he had anything to do with Lester's
> murder, as tempting as it is to go down that path. Of course he might have,
> but it's all circumstantial, like the evidence of Putin's murder of 300
> innocent Russians in apartment bombings in order to justify the Second
> Chechnyan War and foster his own political ambitions.
>
> Our hero revels in uncertainty,
>
>
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>
> Maxine is all in for Windust and his not-small hardon. Conkling smells a
> connection to Lester Traipse.
> "Windust was there when Lester was taken out, and maybe he even did it".
>
> Maxine dresses hot--"turns on the sexy" as a female friend of mine called
> it--- because "field research"...And her Vertex-Vortex of Feminity is
> sending messages.
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