NP: Chronic City

[kelber at mindspring.com]

OK, you win.  Brooklyn is a paradise populated with philosopher-saints.

-----Original Message-----
>From: malignd at aol.com
>Sent: Jun 25, 2009 9:13 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: NP: Chronic City
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>Certainly not with these crude stereotypes:
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><<closed-minded, intolerant, racist, homophobic, religious, pit-bulls, 
>baseball bats-as-weapons, guns ...  etc.>>
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>Your stereotypes of yuppies weren't remotely so offensive.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 6:00 pm
>Subject: Re: NP: Chronic City
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>I notice you didn't take offense at my stereotyping of the yuppie 
>areas.  I've
>lived in Brooklyn for all of my 51 years and I'd never live anywhere 
>else. I
>love my borough. I stand by my description -- it's not tongue-in-cheek 
>or
>ignorant -- it's an accurate amalgam of the residents of non-yuppie 
>Brooklyn
>(and those yuppies are Brooklynese too, by the way).  How would you 
>describe the
>people who live in Brooklyn?
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