Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[David Morris]

Men have WTF sex all the time.  It’s not “real” or love. It’s SEX

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:02 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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