V2-V girl watching as intro to nosejobs

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed Aug 18 06:45:25 CDT 2010


The intro is online, I suspect. Take a little trip on the google
before you lay down your jack son.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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