Weapon-mention as political statement?

[Mark Kohut]

I still have--I think-- an old paperback of "Black Humor" writers
which includes "In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job" ---which is
where I read that section from V. first!....

Bruce Jay Friedman, Joe Heller (of course), Ivan Gold and others
I no longer remember. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:44:19 AM
Subject: Re: Weapon-mention as political statement?

f ) It's worth remembering the context of "Sick" or "Black" humor in the
60's/70's with the rise of Lenny Bruce along with Pynchon. That's
somebody who could really play with those Jewish stereotypes.

On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> e) The Jew as a figure of fun wasn't unique to Pynchon.  Early Philip
> Roth has a lot of passages, eg, that eclipse this one in terms of
> playing with Jewish stereotypes.