ATDDTA: Picking Finland

[Ya Sam]

Race, cultural inheritance and demarcation of
>hierarchical order are central topics here. These notions of inheritance 
>and
>dis-inheritance, boundary lines and other sides of tracks, they matter as 
>much
>in AtD as anywhere else in Pynchon's writing.
>

'Always baiting his master in hopes of getting a leather-keen stripe or two 
across those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian 
rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and 
noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin.'

GR, p. 69 (Penguin edition)

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