the modern state as a suburban house lot

[Michael Bailey]

alice wellintown  wrote:
> Convenient? How is this a convenience? For whom? Jews? For Nazis? For
> anti-Semites? For WASPS? In America? In Israel? Wha? This reads like
> Melville's very famous Fast Fish. Only P's argument seems to suck its
> own tail.
>
>

it's Yitzhak talking, and the "convenient" sounds to me like sarcasm
on his part.
if I were to impute a Pynchon stance vis a vis Yitzhak's argument
it would be simply that he notices Yitzhak noticing his people's apartness.

Now that there is a Jewish state, he would need a different argument.
During the time AtD depicts, the writings of Herzl were, um, being written.
And it's interesting that Yitzhak is scouting in Africa for a
circumscribable place
for the supposedly "wandering" cohort...

In IV, Wolfmann's friendliness with the Aryan Brotherhood is a matter
of some wonderment to Doc, but I don't think there is much Jewish qua Jewish
commentary to be educed, as I came through the book with a much stronger
impression of MW as real estate developer, philanderer, Zome patron
and kidnappee
than as of any particular religious or genetic stock...



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