Back to AtD Anti-Semitism

[Mark Kohut]

pp. 807-808....reread and feel how Pynchon captured Anti-Semitism so straightforwardly (in Vienna)
'it was the air people breathed".....had reached a level of abstraction removed from
blood.........so now it was "a source of energy, a tremendous dark energy".....that
could be used in many ways......[check out how those energies are still there feeding
racial and other hatreds in the US and other countries I'm sure]
................................and the way this ends......

(just in case you've wondered about your own anti-semitism or prejudice) we get
that Pynchon touch wherein after Cyprian makes a joke about Shanghia Jews,even 
Yashmeen starts to articulate that belief................

It,such prejudice, is in the air and everyone is infected. 
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