BEER Group Read. Meeting cute

[Robin Landseadel]

It sez that on an instinctual level, Maxi is one of the "Chosen  
People". The Catholic/Calvinist matrix of Pynchon's points to Elect/ 
Preterite, the Jewish sense of these things is sorta different, sorta  
not. The Jewish People know they are "Chosen", chosen for what, how am  
I supposed to know  SERENITY NOW!!!

But being "Chosen" precludes the possibility that Maxi's Preterite  
[Hint Reg's a preterite], so her sexual radar will have to land with a  
"Suitable Mate". One of the things that makes "BE" so perplexing for  
long-time readers of Pynchon is that for once—[catches breath al la  
Lee Strasberg as Hymie Roth in Godfather II, (1974)]—for once, the  
protagonist's not some freakin' schlemiel.

Leaving Maxi to wonder why she she's been with such "winners" if you  
catch my drift. In that regard, more than anything else, she reminds  
me of Elaine.

On Oct 16, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> But what Maxine does on her grief-reducing cruise is to
> fuck "the real estate obsessive"........Symbolic I'd say (as well as  
> real enough)
>
> "Friendship?" Reg is puzzled..."You didn't even like hiim."
> "A technical term".......[sez Maxine].
>
> Sex happens. What does THIS say about Maxine?
> About fucking?
> About friendship?
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