VLVL The Pisk Sisters--JAPs?

[Terrance]

davemarc wrote:
> 
> From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
> 
> > they wore
> > "their hair in" a style most commonly associated with African-Americans.
> 
> The Jewish Afro (or Jewfro) is not associated with African-Americans, except
> by analogy. It is a style commonly associated with curly-haired Jewish
> people who let their hair grow out. It's a familiar term in the New York
> area.

 No one has suggested that the Mouth Sisters are the daughter's of
European Kings, maybe they are the  daughter's of condo-kings, rag shop
men, bankers, layers, teachers, cops, we are never told, but it's
obvious that too are the target of Pynchon's satire, they are members of
the whole sick crew. Although they are from NYC, they probably grew up
more like Owlglass (a Long Islander)  than Benny (who grew up in NYC) 
...  we don't know ... we're not told ... but they were and are 
certainly not as working class
poor as Prairie or her dear friend Che or her boy friend I-24 or any of
her other pals.  The Mouth Sisters never were working class poor. That's
obvious enough. And, even after some fairly volatile economic periods of
the '70's and early '80's, after a divorce for Ditzah (usually a big red
number on the balance sheet), she is still solvent and financially
better off than
most people in the U.S.A.  The Mouth Sisters are members of the
privileged college or professional class. So why do they want to "Smash
the State"? Rather than getting bogged down is all this silly shit about
who knows what about living in California and NYC and the pizza and the
pastries and authoritative dictionary kicking shit, why not compare the
characters in the book? DL and Sledge? The ass kickers. Not college
kids, right? How about Howie and Mirage? 


PS    I've  got the SDS book.