CoL49 - Feminist novel

[David Morris]

I think that’s a good synopsis. One could proceed to various other depth
levels of discussion. And TRP is very much interested in those also. But
this is a good Concritization of the concepts.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 10:12 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> The book is feminist, and Pynchon captures that perfectly with Oedipa's
> experience as she discovers the "reality" of the patriarchal system that
> she thought she was comfortable within. Coming from the Tupperware party
> attending wife with an herb garden and a life of preparing her husband's
> dinners and drinks to the confident woman who can face a Nazi shrink, spend
> a night wandering the Bay area feeling safe, and by the end, ready to face
> the representative of the mysterious Trystero head on.
>
> The excluded middle, while it is where "she has been told" bad shit
> happens, is the new reality that she has discovered outside the binary
> track of the patriarchal system.
>
> This reality isn't necessarily more comfortable, in fact she feels waves
> of nausea, but it comes closer to reality, one that has many directions for
> her to discover, even as the patriarchal system no longer provides the
> comforting answers. Like an existential moment, when the ground has fallen
> away revealing the void, she must now discover her own reality.
>
> In solidarity,
> James
>
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