MDMD 'The All-Nations Coffee-House' (299.32)

[Dave Monroe]

But the United Nations aside, can't help but think ...

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--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
wrote:
> re Dolly's reference to 'The All-Nations Coffee-
> House' (299.32)
> 
> here's something I posted back in the first P-list
> reading of M&D:
> 
> Otherwise, Dixon's visit to the All-Nations echoes
> the scene in GR when Major Marvy, having received
> the 2 1/2 ounces of cocaine from Bodine, goes to the
> brothel named House of All Nations, where he
> winds up with Manuela and entertains his racist and
> militaristic metaphors of penetration [...] wears
> Slothrop's pig costume to escape when the place is
> busted, and gets himself gelded in Slothrop's place
> as a result.
> 
> The set-up here in M&D suggests that Dixon's
> fun-loving interest in dusky damsels may not be all
> that different from Major Marvy's ...

But I do wish I'd've recalled this myself, dammit. 
Many references to other Pynchonian texts in M&D, am
curious about how they might function in that
Pynchonian symbolic economy ...

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