AtD: "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!" (626)

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I'd look deeply into Joe Kennedy's film investments. 
This was happening during the very start-up of the 
era of the talkies and the Kennedys could have had 
a hand in taking down Pynchon & Co.
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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> 
>  
> Flashback to the early 1980s ... Northern Germany, teenagers telling jokes:
> What did President Reagan say when he recently visited Hamburg?
> "Ich bin ein Hamburger!"
>  
> re. Pynchon & Kennedy: Unlike other American left-liberals like
> Lou Reed ("Most of all I wish I'd forget the day John Kennedy
> died"), Pynchon seems to be very critical on Kennedy. In addition
> to AtD's --- more or less --- subtile diss on pp. 626-7, there is
> a direct reference in the Slow Learner intro: "Modern readers will be,
> at least, put off by an unacceptable level of racist, sexist and
> proto-Fascist talk throughout this story [that is "Low-lands" - kfl].
> (...) The best I can say for it now is that, for its time, it is 
> probably authentic enough. John Kennedy's role model James Bond
> was about to make his name by kicking third-world people around,
> another extension of the boy's adventure tales a lot of us grew 
> up reading". Since it seems not really necessary for getting the
> message, it must have been a personal need for Pynchon to drop 
> Kennedy's name in this context. And the JFK passages in GR
> (pp. 65, 682, 688) ooze with aggressive sarcasm. Any thoughts?
>  
> Kai
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