aw. Re: V-2nd - Chapter 13 - catch-up/: Kreplach

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Not exactly ...

"... Remember the story about the kid who hates kreplach? Hates and 
fears the dish, breaks out in these horrible green hives that shift in 
relief maps all across his body, in the mere presence of kreplach. Kid's 
mother takes him to the psychiatrist. 'Fear of the unknown,' diagnosis 
the gray eminence, 'let him watch you MAKING the kreplach, that'll ease 
him into it.' Home to Mother's kitchen. 'Now,' says the mother, 'I'm 
going to make us a delicious surprise!' 'Oh, boy!' cries the kid, that's 
KEEN, Mom!' 'See, now I'm sifting the flour and salt into a nice little 
pile.' 'What's that, Mom, hamburger? oh, boy!' 'Hamburger, and ONIONS. 
I'm frying them here, see, in this frying pan.' 'Gee, I can hardly wait. 
This is exciting! What're ya doin' NOW? 'Making a little volcano into 
the flour here, and breaking these eggs into it.' 'Can I help ya mix it 
up? Oh, boy!' 'Now I'm going to roll the dough out, see? into a nice 
flat sheet, now I'm cutting it up into squares---' 'This is terrif, 
Mom!' 'Now I spoon some of the hamburger into this little square, and 
now I fold it over into a tri---' 'GAAHHHH!' screames the kid, in 
absolute terror--- 'KREPLACH!'" (Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow, p. 737)

KFL

On 17.01.2011 14:18, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Are we talking about the banana kreplach?
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen<lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>> Sent: Jan 17, 2011 7:46 AM
>> To: pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 13 - catch-up
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>> Couldn't this be also a precursor to Gravity's Rainbow's kreplach scene?
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>> On 16.01.2011 22:26, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>> 3.  The list of foods Benny encounters on his Jewish mother's table is every bit as improbable (who'd leave all that stuff unrefrigerated?) as the menu of the Banana Breakfast in GR, and must be a precursor to that scene.  Food is love, food is comfort, food (like Malta) is the cradle of life.
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