BEER Group Read. That attitude

[Fiona Shnapple]

But the flip side is that the most diverse population on Earth, at the
apex of cutthroat capitalism, gets up and goes to work, to play, to
school, to the library, through the huge mass transit system, and last
week there was not a single murder in this city of nine million, and
this year, crime is down another 27% and will set yet another record
low, moving to levels not seen since 1950s.

Maybe a bit of rude talk ain't so bad. It sure beats the hell out of
murder. Look at Chicago!

But we can't have a stop and frisk policy.

We can't have all these un-sheltered.

We can't have so on...so the city is going to elect a Left-leaning
progressive who plans to tax the rich and educate the poor.

As Kotch, used to ask, How My Doin?

Most NYers say, we doin better, but....what happened to the sense of
community....to neighborhoods...well, city life ain't what it used to
be no more. It wasn't better then, but that don't mean we need to put
up with all the problems we still got and neglect the poor.  And that
is another reason I Love this book. It comes from a NYer and it keeps
it real. This ain't no fake book novel here, under the language is a
heart that is still angry and in love with the place.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Some journalistic types, lotsa citizen acquaintances say These United
> States' foax are more
> confrontational, less civil, interrupt more than ever.
>
> Did Pynchon catch THAT, too, immersively with the "Who Wants to Know?' stuff
> and verbal attitudinizing
> and aggressiveness?
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