V-2nd Home and homelessness

[alice wellintown]

No, five towns is not as close as we get for Benny cause he goes home
to his mom and dad's later on; we have homes for these characters,
both where they come from and where they now reside. The bums theme
that young P attempts  here in V., as with his whitebread attempts ito
look into the mind of the Other, n his watts essay and with the
vagrant jazz man in The Secret Integratioin, doesn't work very well.
The tourist theme, directly tied to the bums theme, works quite well.
When the tourists from Long Island and Westchester and so on, who only
communte to NYC to work, go home to five towns and other handsome
homes, the people who live in the City, including the bums, who run
the place, the priests who feed them, the angels who work underground,
those who Baedeker omits, are revealved. Ah, what a revelation!

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joseph Tracy writes:
> Yes I was going to touch on this just a bit. Both Rachel ( cool, beautiful,
> smart, at home with machines and the age of the automobile)and Benny ( all
> around sclemiel, and perhaps too porcine to be fully at home in his own
> Jewishness) seem to follow the classic stereotype of the Wandering Jew. This
> feels like an important part of what keeps them from connecting to any place or
> people. They seem unable to imagine "home" in a positive way. But we have little
> indication this comes from their own experience of home, rather it seems like a
> kind of Jungian cultural archetype.
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> Home as, minimally, place---The Five Towns area----with Benny umbilically linked
> (metaphorically) to Rachel is as close as we get, yes?
>
> So, V. here is about spirtual homelessness, among other things?....and I'm
> pre-remembering the tourists are everywhere theme---which means they/we
> are not at home either.
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