BEER: Epigraph -

[Keith Davis]

Am I crazy, or did someone here mention "naming a magical enterprise"? I'll
never be able to keep up with this group read, but will keep on kicking
regardless...


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> NICE find, real nice.....'master of disguise'.....New York as masked,
> hidden, not natural ----(natural: as some of
> the most positive aspects of P's vision of the human)
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> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 8:40 AM
> Subject: Re: BEER: Epigraph -
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> More on Westlake's epigraph:  "If New York were personified… "
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ptliV4fzc
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> How can you recognize the real New York? It's tough. ''New York,'' says
> the author Donald E. Westlake, musing on the role of the city in crime
> fiction, ''is a master of disguise.''
> http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/nyregion/they-love-new-york.html
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> Bek
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> On Oct 13, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > BE - Epigraph:
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> > "New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would
> not be the murderer.  It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real
> story but isn't going to tell it."
> > Donald E. Westlake -
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> > Westlake was a prolific and highly regarded crime writer - capers mostly
> - popular in the late 20th and very early 21st centuries.  He wrote under a
> number of pseudonyms.
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> > Interesting epigraph and I think it sets the tone and setting for the
> book nicely.  Is it possible that NYC is the "enigmatic" suspect?  Not for
> 9/11 but possibly for other crimes in there.  More likely NY could
> "possibly" be the narrator.
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> > Just a thought -  (I like Epigraphs.)
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> > Bekah
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