BE/White Noise

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 10.10.2013 16:13, Robin Landseadel wrote:

>  The way I'm reading it now, Maxi is very much in the mold of Elaine 
> from "Seinfeld". As I take this on a second time I'll ask—"What would 
> Elaine do?" Of course, they're not twins. But the local environment of 
> Bleeding Edge appears to be in Larry David's zip code.
>
> (...)  In many ways she's what I'd call a "LINO", a "Leftist in name 
> only" in that she mouths opposition to the system but analyzes it, 
> works it, makes her money off it and in that way, keeps the Dynamo 
> running. It's an impossible balancing act and Maxi falls too easily, 
> though full of common sense as she is, she dusts herself off after 
> these monstrous couplings with conscience-free Lotharios and gets on 
> with her life.
>
> Kinda like Elaine, see?
>

Unlike Maxine, Elaine does not seem to have a left cultural background. 
And when she's dating a communist her concern is about his shabby clothes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PdecBn2no

"You look like Trotsky!"


> The real difference between Maxi and one of the "worst people in the 
> world" being that Maxi is a mother, a classic example of what Donald 
> Winnicott would call a "Good Enough Mother," this being Maxi's only 
> real moral compass, but more than enough for her and her family to 
> survive. But when bad stuff happens to bad people? She just shrugs it 
> off.
>
>
> Wonderfully paradoxical stuff and at the same time the envoirns are 
> recognizable for what passes for quoditian these days. The book is 
> also like those kinds of downloadable files that have lossless 
> encryption—takes a while for "Bleeding Edge" to open up. But the same 
> was true of Gravity's Rainbow.
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