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Dave Monroe wrote:

  But, hey, why didn't anybody mention the following to me?
> 
> Simon, Louis P., Jr.  "Profane Illuminations: Benny Profane,
>     Herbert Stencil and Walter Benjamin's Flaneur." Pynchon Notes
>     30-31 (1992): 172-78.

Must be this wet brain, that's my excuse for everything,
mother dropped me in a bucket of beer when we lived on 14th,
well that's my Mysah, the rest are lazy. 

right Rachel says, MYSAH, Make Yourself At Home. Crew /
Yiddish. This is in Part II of Chapter Five. It's  Strange,
some short clips here, connected by communications confused,
full of outlandish puns and bad jokes, very Shakespearean. 
We go to Winsome and Mafia's apartment. It's a huge
apartment, thirteen rooms, on Riverside, the Rusty Hudson.
The apartment is decorated in Early Homosexual and arranged
open, wide open, to present what writers of the last century
liked to call "vistas." I think that Whitman, Walt, is here.
Poor Winsome, his wife is an intellectual, she's playing
with her cat, dangling her balloons. He's smoking string. He
got it at Bloomingdales. I guess you can get anything at
Bloomingdales or Lord and Taylor's, dress for Esther, a
nasty look from the rich old ladies to frighten Fina just
enough to get Benny, tugged by some miracle below the
street, uptown and down in the sewers. Charisma, got it for
him, he was a shipping clerk after all, at Bloomingdales,
but Charisma is no longer shipping clerk at Bloomingdales,
so he  will have to get it from the pusher at Lord and
Taylor's. Believe it or not, this is not only half as
outlandish as it sounds. Roony is an Exec at Outlandish. I
guess that "Volkswagens in Hi-Fi" and "The Leavenworth Glee
Club Sings Old Favorites" are two of Outlandish's  How does
this outlandishness work here? Electronic reproductions in
Volkswagens? Leavenworth is the site of a federal
penitentiary. And what the hell is Roony going to do, record
the blast of ICBMs for his  it's all Overture?