Human Canoe

[Ingrid Chesnick]

To :Fakhereddine Berrada and the Pynchon List

Sorry for  the earlier impolite reply:

  A point of parliamentary order for political correctness gone on it's
usual rampant path unencumbered by the thought process in your rabid
overreaction to the "canoe" joke. 
  If one had read the joke verbatim Vs interpreted it to the darkness of
their own perception ,they would have noticed that the cannibals mentioned
had declared  NO national origin, ethnic origin, racial stereotype ,species
or any other type of specification of the group of sub-human wretches who
make up our human race. There is no mention of color or racial stereotypes
,that you have decided all on own your to imply ,infer ,read into and to
hallucinate further upon .Plus take umbrage too.
 Since I was the supplier/ author/ indicted co -conspirator who supplied the
"joke"
(May God have mercy on my Pagan soul ) I am declaring the cannibals to be
Swedish. For additional references from us blonde- haired- blue -eyed
-devils I refer you to :  
http://www.bart.nl/~sante/enginvek.html


INGRID----------


: From: Fakhereddine Berrada <fberrada at csd.uwm.edu>
: To: Andrew S. Chesnick <chestnic at mail.cvn.net>
: Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
: Subject: Re: Human Canoe
: Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997 3:58 PM
: 
: I personally don't think your "joke" is funny. I don't need to quote
: Fanon, Freud, or E. Said to make the point that racist stereotypes are
: constructed through "innocent" jokes and the like. I'll just refer you to
: V and GR. Try to read the signs on the back of the Bondel behind whom
: Mondaugen is riding, or even more specifically try to locate these words
: and/or phrases in GR: Marvy's "niggers", Frans' "unfaithful" and "the
: Beast," Pudding's "brute African", Old Tehitcherine's "sultry native
: wench", Weissmann's African "monster", Sir Marcus' "black animals", the
: "Komical Kamikazes", the "nonsensical Nips", the "Juicy Japs", the "Yellow
: Peril", etc. all of them ethnic and cultural stereotypess that GR 
: undermines beautifully and quite unambiguously. I am not reacting simply 
: because I happen to be a native of "that Darkest Continent", but because 
: I have love and respect for the spirit of TRP's work, and your joke 
: sounded -at least to me- totally out of place.
: 
: fakhereddine berrada On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andrew S. Chesnick wrote:
: 
: > A Frenchman, an Englishman and a New Yorker were captured by cannibals.
:  "So much for your canoe you stupid &%#%#*@!"