V--2nd: icebox

[Albert Rolls]

Icebox may just be a synonym for refrigerator. I guess it's not a basis for establishing wide usage, but my father--working-class NY kid in the thirties and after the war, which he dropped out of school to join, a working-class young man--referred to refrigerators as iceboxes when I was a young kid in the 70s. I assume he wasn't alone.


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>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 12, 2010 2:23 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: V--2nd: icebox
>
>Is it an icebox? Isn't it part of Melvin's refrigerator...the icebox
>may be a freezer box above it. What struck me, that "ruby
>construction."
>The ruby juices, mixed with vomit, spilled and broken world of Fausto
>IV, reminds us of the sailor's grave too. Not too healthy that, as the
>gent stands on the toilet to collect money in that pith helmet for an
>abortion. That some consider knocking the knocked up girl down the
>stair then spending the money on more vomit juice reminds me of the
>LSD in Prairie's baby bottle and that Hope's child who, by some grace
>unknown, doesn't suck the junk from her mother's polluted breasts. The
>toilet here does remind us of that junk meet in the portable potty on
>the boarder of Mexico, one shitting out a bag of shit, the other with
>her fingers down her throat barfing up a balloon of smack, an erection
>fixed to a vagina, can't call it love, but something that produces a
>love child anyway.
>
>
>On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> at lest two uses in this chapter.....was gone even in the fifties in most places
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>> not too poor...
>> but the Kramdens (on "The Honeymooners") still had one......working class
>> couple, and "it's all about work"
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebox
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