VLVL The Tube

[jbor]

    They liked to chain-smoke while they worked and to have two
    or three television sets, tuned to different channels, going
    at the same time, plus rock and roll, the more acid-oriented
    the better, on the radio, thus cutting and splicing in an
    environment you could call rhythmic. (197.6)

Perhaps an argument could be made that the Pisk sisters are deliberately
subverting the medium with this sort of overkill, but it's a long bow ....

Or is it the contention of our "warm and neighborly" (!) New Yorkers that
all working class teenage gals from the Bronx back in the '60s were
accustomed to having three tvs around the place as they honed their
filmmaking craft with their own movie cameras and editing machines and
Movieolas?

Note also that it's the narrator who describes Ditzah as the "food kvetch"
(196.23), and that *then* we're given the example of her, well, kvetching.
Not surprising, I guess, that she's the one who ended up in the muu muu.

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