V2-V girl watching as intro to nosejobs
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 23:31:18 CDT 2010
ok, you're saying there is a BDSL out there with an intro by P?
I buy an occasional book...hafta get that one now...
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> In his Intro to Farina's BDSL elder P discusses the repressed sexual
> lives of young men and young women. he is wowed by Farina's magnetic,
> cuban-irish, way with the ladies, how the females young P can only
> drool and dream on, do a little dance for Farina. of course, Farina
> has been made legend by his on the road scholarship, real or imagined,
> where there are still places, not all of them on america's maps, where
> the objectification of women in a pre-code hollywood world, where the
> virgins and vamps of the american dynamo are but a distant nightmare
> and even the Myrtles (of Fitzgerald's Gatsby) of the new-wasteland or
> new valley of ashes or the reoressed cornells of the consumer military
> industrial complex, still swim, naked, their enormous vitality, a sea
> of fecundity. But these marching heels, with McLuhan grills and high
> beam busts of polished chrome will, as Daisy ran down Myrtle, crush
> our boys under their metal frames and false fenders.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> Angel sighed. "There are so many," he said. "So many millions and millions
>> of girls. Here in New York, and in Boston, where I was once and in thousands
>> more cities... It makes me lose heart."
>> "Out in Jersey too," said Profane. "I worked in Jersey."
>> "A lot of good stuff in Jersey," Angel said.
>>
>> Did others laugh here? This scene on the bench, scoping out the passing
>> women leads to Rachel's passage by the same spot, her "brave sensual
>> trudging", toward her encounter with Shoenmaker ( literally something like
>> pretty maker).
>>
>> To the dudes on the street , and to the human animal, the sensual glory of
>> women or men is wonderfully diverse. Skin color, noses, eyes, lips,
>> breasts, hips and legs, fingers and arms and backs and butts- there is a
>> thousand ways to be beautiful and only a fool refuses any of them.
>>
>> Fascism is , among other things, a racist narrowing of the concept of beauty
>> and desirability. The Jewish Schoenmaker, while funny and offhand is cashing
>> in on a form of cultural fascism targeting Jews. Who is the sick crew? Does
>> anyone get the Irving line?
>>
>
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