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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Yes, I say yes and I would add from the televisual culture lens, it assimilates everyone, he sez. <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR style="RIGHT: auto"></div>
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<DIV sizcache009328121827803987="70" sizset="0">How could p write a book about ny, set during the great wave of immigration, and not address immigration and assimilation to some extent? The fixing of teeth has been mentioned and the dentists, but the nose job, there inV., the changed names, could Dylan make it with a name like his?, for celebrity and business...for success, Amy tan' waverly, shiksas, modeled by entertainers, the erasure of ethnicity, the melting into the pot, these are, in part, responses to racism, to anti-semitism in these examples. No? So immigrants master the very difficult art of comic language in a new culture. This is something to admire. No? And p is not Roth, or the other great Roth, both have been accused, as p gas been even here, of getting it wrong, of embarrassing, latent racism. So p takes a big risk commensurate with that of the Jewish comedian, and succeeds. No? What would Lenny Bruce do? <BR clear=none><BR
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<DIV><SPAN>My first take is that the ethnicity of maxine, of the middle-aged foax in this novel is.....reduced to an echo of</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>itself, so to speak....assimilation as virtual elimination.....Maxine jokes Jewish but..........</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Her parents are. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV sizcache009328121827803987="70" sizset="0">But she is not, as the schlemiel is not, really chosen. The schlemiel is one sent away from G-d, and the schlimazel, also a P protagonist, is born under a bad star. So, Jewish, chosen, but not elect but a castaway. This puts them in good company in American fiction. See CLR James on Melville.
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<DIV>So, a web de bios double consciousness, Jewish in religion or ethnicity, is doubled by the comic assimilation. </DIV>
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<DIV>The s, and the s, find a common scapegoat, the mother. And, the Jap, etc, but the females, though, of course, the Jap, a assimilated ghetto girl is a commodity, marketable, as and for old and new Jews and consumers of Jewish stereotype tv, film, etc. so George is "Jewish" as are jerry and jason. The parents are the old Jewish, in tv land where the actors slide into roles that the audience has been taught is Jewish, and in the Jewish community. Of course, P, is playing the Simpsons card, a bag gag Joak, that </DIV>
<DIV>Woody Allen must find an Oedipus wreck. </DIV>
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<DIV sizcache009328121827803987="70" sizset="1"><BR clear=none>On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:<BR clear=none>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" sizcache009328121827803987="70" sizset="1">It sez that on an instinctual level, Maxi is one of the "Chosen People". The Catholic/Calvinist matrix of Pynchon's points to Elect/Preterite, the Jewish sense of these things is sorta different, sorta not. The Jewish People know they are "Chosen", chosen for what, how am I supposed to know SERENITY NOW!!!<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>But being "Chosen" precludes the possibility that Maxi's Preterite [Hint Reg's a preterite], so her sexual radar will have to land with a "Suitable Mate". One of the things that makes "BE" so perplexing for long-time readers of Pynchon is that for once—[catches breath al la Lee Strasberg as Hymie Roth in Godfather II, (1974)]—for once, the protagonist's not some freakin' schlemiel.<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>Leaving Maxi to wonder why she she's been with such "winners" if you
catch my drift. In that regard, more than anything else, she reminds me of Elaine.<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>On Oct 16, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex">But what Maxine does on her grief-reducing cruise is to<BR clear=none>fuck "the real estate obsessive"........Symbolic I'd say (as well as real enough)<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>"Friendship?" Reg is puzzled..."You didn't even like hiim."<BR clear=none>"A technical term".......[sez Maxine].<BR clear=none><BR clear=none>Sex happens. What does THIS say about Maxine?<BR clear=none>About fucking?<BR clear=none>About friendship?<BR clear=none></BLOCKQUOTE>-<BR clear=none>Pynchon-l / <A href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank saprocessedanchor="true">http://www.waste.org/mail/?<U></U>listpynchon-l</A><BR clear=none></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR clear=none><BR clear=none></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>