VLVL Ditzah

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>> "a flashy vintage car"
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>> http://www.funbirds.com/tour.htm
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>> http://vintagethunderbirdclub.org/welcome.htm
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>> "spoilt little rich kids":
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>> "Magnin's?" Zipi would smile grimly. "OK for a shopping center,
>> somewhere on Long Island perhaps, very nice ladies' toilet of
>> course, but please, this is no major store." Ditzah was the food
>> kvetch -- "Try and get a danish *anywhere* out here!" (196.20)
>> 
>> "Rebelling against their upbringing, slumming it, out for a bit of a lark"
>> 
>> See, for example, 194.18-23 and 196.32-197.2 in particular.
 
on 2/1/04 2:08 AM, Terrance wrote:

> This reading doesn't really work for me. I mean, I'd say that the
> sisters are like a lot of P's character sketches ...  and in this case
> the sisters are your average NYC Jewish women moved to California.

Sure, but with attitude, and with the comfort of money and family behind
them, and cutting loose at Berkeley with the drugs and the sex and the
"anarchist bomber" dress-up. I don't buy the idea that they're parodying the
stereotype: they are the stereotype, they mean it, and their arrogant and
absurd parochialism about the superiority of NYC is what amuses Howie and
the others (196). I always get the impression that "Ditzah Pisk Feldman"
(194.13) eventually married some Jewish doctor and was able to set herself
up very nicely indeed as a result.

> Maybe
> a bit of Patty and Selma there too, but the Owlglass comparison doesn't
> quite fit. Owlglass is now Mother Superior, Sister R.

I was thinking more of Rachel with her MG, when she first met Benny,
rebelling against her "Five Towns" upbringing. I still haven't worked out
Sister Rochelle's disguise, those "distant country notes" (112.4) in her
voice.

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