VLVL Ditzah

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 2 09:51:42 CST 2004


> 
> 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.

They are more bookkeeper's sons than show biz kids.
We'll have to wait and see what happens, but we can expect more irony in
the stars and badass karma come back to bite these old violence
enthusiasts in their plastic pants.  






> 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.


Oh, yeah, but Rachel would have loved that Surfer's Woody.



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