V-2nd

[Ian Livingston]

> By the way: what's all the Jewish stuff in V.?  Don't know if it keeps up,
> reading it for the first time here.
>

Israel was quite a controversy at the time. Just becoming a nation and
looking for American support. And many, many new European Jewish
immigrants and their children just arriving on the American scene. It
was a pretty hot topic, replete with cultural ramifications galore.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jude Bloom <jude.bloom at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is some fucked-up shit. Tooth pain isn't like normal pain. Its direct
> proximity to the brain... teeth have hot electrical wires poking right into
> the soft grey matter... and as Martin Amis has said, your mouth is where you
> live.
>
> In fact the whole subject of writers and teeth is pretty interesting. Amis,
> Joyce, Nabokov... all epic tooth sufferers.
>

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>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:52 PM, "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>
>> Closer reality connection: when I was growing up, the family dentist had
>> been a Navy dentist during WWII. I can testify to the man's lack of
>> interest
>> in whether he was causing pain. At some point I had two wisdom teeth
>> extracted. Asked him about pain control, and he said, "Wait at least two
>> hours. If it still hurts, take two aspirin." Pretty much shot the rest of
>> that day and all of that night.
>>
>> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Reality connection: I have heard a couple of military teeth damage work
>> done to foax in my time......
>>
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