BBER Ch. 3 Terminally Honky

[Dave Monroe]

"'all that white food'" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 21)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--g3PP3dfDo

http://adrianemiller.com/about-the-book/


"'mayonnaise! All in your brain'" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 21)

Cf. "Purple haze! all in my brain"

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/jimihendrix56.shtml

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_21

Smart Brother: If you're going to fit in to white America, you're
gonna have to learn to like MAYONNAISE!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279493/quotes?item=qt0387736

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubV3t9_CwDc

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-EJKeJJY4tht7m/undercover_brother_2002_eating_mayonnaise/


"every one of y'all, terminally honky" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 21)

E.g., ...

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/w.html#weissmann

Richard Dyer, White: Essays on Race and Culture (New York: Routledge,
1997), Chapter 6, "White Death," pp. 207-23:

"Death may in some traditions be a vivid experience, but within much
of the white tradition it is a blank that may be immateriality (pure
spirit) or else just nothing at all.... a colour that also signifies
the absence of colour, itself a characteristic of life and presence."
(207)

"The theme of whiteness and death takes many forms.  Whites often seem
to have a special relation with death, to yearn for it but also to
bring it to others." (208)

"It is said that when sub-Saharan Africans first saw Europeans, they
took them for dead people, for living cadavers.  If so, it was a
deadly perception, for whites may not only embody death, they also
bring it.... the Ku Klux Klan ..." (209)

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781315003603/

See also

Richard Dyer, "White," The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations (London:
Routledge, 1993), pp. 141-63

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0105&msg=55316

David Batchelor, Chromophobia (London: Reaktion, 2000).

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