VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards 24fps?

[jbor]

on 5/1/04 12:19 PM, jbor wrote:

> Note in particular that it's "Sledge, gesturing with his 'fro pick", who puts
> a stop to the offensive travesty, and how Howie, "eyes ablush", manages to
> rescue the situation with "a smoldering joint of gold Colombian as a token of
> peace" (198.4-6). Seems these aren't just your token male chauvinists in some
> feminist parable after all. Also, as with the WSC in _V._, Pynchon doesn't
> label Sledge as an African-American man, thought it's apparent from this
> exchange that that's precisely what he is. As I've noted before, J.M.
> Coetzee's work owes something to Pynchon in this regard.

Cf. also the Pisk sisters with "their hair in matching oversize Jewish
Afros" (196.18-19). Arguable, I realise, but mentioned not so much an ethnic
label as the name of the 'do. Note how the phrasing ("hair in", "matching",
"oversize") implies that it's the work of a hairdresser rather than
something which has grown naturally. Don't imagine those "battle fatigues"
they were "going around in" were cheap either.

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