Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[David Morris]

The sex Oed has with Metz is a guarded WTF sex.  He initially flashed his
sexuality so expertly that Oed figured he must be an actor setting her up,
maybe hidden camera. He turns her on. He doesn’t APPEAR gay… He’s annoying,
but her hair-down mode is powerful. So she feels up for the challenge

David Morris

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 3:29 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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