CoL49 - Feminist novel

[David Morris]

Yes!

On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 10:16 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> JKVN: "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. "
>
> This is what she is pregnant with and TRP presents it like that....nausea,
> loss of self, etc...
>
> 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
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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