VV the WSC (Re: Benny's job

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jbor wrote:
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> >From: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> > Your definitions of "centre" and "otherness" are only Bobs
> > floating on the surface. Perhaps we can dive deeper.
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> Or shallower. _M&D_. George Washington and his black Jewish jester.

Not at all, I think, twisting ironies abound, jokes,
serious, jokes. No, not shallow at all, but exactly what we
get in V., I'd say. 

Example, Fergus, is described as an "Irish American Jew." 
Other characters are also described in like fashion. So,
while agree that P may be progressive, post-colonial if you
like, I don't understand your textual support. Some are
identified ethnically, or by Religion, some are not. 


  THE POOL PLAYERS. 
 SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.



                  We real cool. We
                  Left school. We

                  Lurk late. We
                  Strike straight. We

                  Sing sin. We
                  Thin gin. We

                  Jazz June. We
                  Die soon.
 		
			---Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960