Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

[Mark Kohut]

Your reading is much more in the Pynchon mode and spirit. Has that benefit of 
having resonance right on the surface.
I like it better. 



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, July 7, 2010 6:40:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door

Had to actually look up the definition of animadvert, Mike.  Your animadversions 
are always interesting and entertaining.

Am I the only one who saw in Profane's condom-nailing a simple, "Fuck you, 
scum-bags!" along with maybe a little intra-Jew anti-semitism, along the lines 
of:  Yeah, you're all so full of your insular Jewish culture, with your Five 
Towns and your kosher Chinese cuisine and your Princess daughters obsessed with 
their fancy cars.  So how come you guys don't even have mezuzahs on your 
vacation cabins?  I'll give you some mezuzahs, you scumbags!"

By the way, my limited experience with kosher Chinese (or kosher anything, for 
that matter) is that it's uniformly awful.

Here's an example, not too far from where I live.  You've got to give them 
credit for the bad pun:

http://menupages.com/restaurants/shang-chai-kosher-restaurant/

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 7, 2010 9:48 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Fw: V-2nd. Contraceptives on every door
>
>pretty sure everybody is tired of my animadverting here, so this is my
>last contribution to this thread, the better to follow along with
>Laura's hostship for the rest of the week (although there's one more
>Mark post I have earmarked to return to at some point...) but a
>torrent of insights flowed through me and I really wanted to express
>some of the alluvia
>
>such as the question of morals and mores and how as a novelist he's
>allowed to explore issues without giving final answers
>
>adding just a light touch on the Catholic-influence possibility
>
>and a stout defense of Pynchon's characterization M.O. (and thinking
>of how the glimpses caught of the characters, like sunlight thru a
>stained glass window, for me illuminate and enliven them more than I
>can express well (obviously)
>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Yippy dippy dippy,
>Flippy zippy zippy,
>Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
>- Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")