ATDTDA (12): Mrs. Dragsaw, Vegetarian Anarchist & Restaurateur [337]

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 10:11:19 CDT 2007


This is cool.  Thanks Kieth.

But this begs the question of why Pynchon made the ATD veggy
restaurant a "white bread" gig, so to speak.  It would  have been much
more fun if it had been run by a pants-wearing Hispanic anarchist!

David Morris

On 7/6/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
>
>Capetillo, who ran a vegetarian restaurant and boarding house on
Twenty-second Street and Eighth Avenue, was a staunch advocate for the
rights of women as well as the working class. Her writings rank among
the earliest feminist discourses in modern America.
>   http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/historian4.html



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