VLVL Ditzah

[jbor]

on 9/1/04 7:30 AM, davemarc at davemarc at panix.com wrote:

>>> Regarding the breakfast pastry known as Danish, jbor also wrote: "It's
>>> misleading to assert that it is only or typically a
>>> pauper's food." For the record, no one on this listserv has made such an
>>> absurd
>>> assertion.
>> 
>> Amend to "It's misleading to suggest that ... "
>> 
>> Thanks for the corrections.
>> 
> You're welcome. But no one on this listserv has even suggested that Danish
> is only or typically a pauper's food.

Previously he had written:

>> Regarding Danish, I assure subscribers that they're not a pastry associated
>> with the wealthy. As I said, they're more on a level with donuts. In fact,
>> they're arguably lower-brow because one can slice away at a Danish,
>> stretching it out for days or sharing it with, say, family members.

It is certainly misleading to suggest that Danish is only or typically a
pauper's food, and I'm glad that we can now agree on that very simple point.
They were and are available from both "lower-brow" food vendors *and* in
up-market coffee shops, restaurants and, particularly, department store food
courts. The implication and context in the text does not support the idea
that Ditzah likes Danish because she's concerned with economy.

And the point remains that the accumulation of these details in the text
reveals the Pisk twins as loud (later Pynchon refers to them as behaving
"boisterously"), conceited, politically insensitive, and accustomed to
privilege. They are satirised by Pynchon.

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