Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[Mark Kohut]

Speaking again of sex, Oedipa and Metzger,
when I wrote about bad sex--not fully conscious, engaged, loving
Lawrentian sex--there is the countertruth (if I am right)...that

They came together, satisfyingly.

The need? The meaning?

Oedipa's bite, thru the sharkskin suit into M's arm? Not normal. WTF?
And I was led to these words in Margaret Atwood's early poetic
narrative *The Journals of Susannah Moodie. *A Canadian woman
on the prairie, struggling, in the mid-nineteenth century.

 "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth."

No, no influence on Pynchon, maybe the reverse?  1970