IV and cultural assimilation

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> ****Bekah is ME and sez:
> ME:   Another thing,  I think Pynchon is going to some lengths to include specific elements of the racial/national diversity which is LA in one large celebration of cultural assimilation.
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> I also think, from doc's afro thru Tariq, the Asian chicks and others, TRP definitely wanted to indicate a real mixing 'melting pot' that was lost later in America.....
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>

or, was just getting started.  Where I work, I hear all nationalities
signifying on each other's mamas.  Stuff that I wouldn't have been
able to dream of, let alone laugh about, in Jim Crow Florida.



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