You never did the Kenosha Kid? Down the toilet
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed Sep 7 10:35:26 CDT 2005
On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:19 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
> But eventually Slothrop does takes the plunge, unleashing deep-
> seated xenophobic, homophobic and racist ("Some of it too must of
> course be Negro shit, but that all looks alike." p. 65) impulses.
If he'd said all negroes look alike it would be racist, but a joke
at the expense of that particular racial stereotype is, if anything
besides being funny, ANTIRACIST on the part of Slothrop as well as
on the part of Pynchon.
Sorry and best
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