Chap 24 What a fucking scene, he puns.

[Mark Kohut]

I mean has sex and death, murderously linked through much of Western
psychological history
EVER been done like THIS on the page? Thru a female character too...

And then Maxine learns of the wife and asks some Traipse questions so that
Windust knows that
she knows and, yes, as Jody sez, Maxine is complex as fucking life, pun
intended once again as
she admits to wanting, in a great sentence "more of the same".

Yes, we know so many of us diss Pynchon for such a view of women which I
won't challenge or litigate
but in BE I ask this: In this novel of decadent late capitalism in the late
capitalism capitol of the world (maybe? dunno; one
of them anyway) is this about how even the honest good Forensic Accountants
of the world, the real fraud detectors,
love getting fucked by the murderous emotionless thugs? of Late Capitalism.
Shock Doctrine, so to speak up the wazoo in TRP's
vision here?