BEER Ch. 3 The Big Alexithymic Lug

[Mark Kohut]

Money, money, money, Toilets everwhere, shit, money and The Word,  a smells expert ( as in ATD who helps Lew by toilet-reading)...New York in Bleeding Edge overtly stinks of money, money, money and it is the source of the crime. 
 
Sick people. Mentally sick.  Everywhere. In New York, Borderlines from all over the world, all those other textual indications John Bailey listed show something of what the author believes about....the world. Globally.  
 
And everyone? everyone but the kids (and maybe the dead man?) seeing in media memes, talking in sit com, and pop culture allusions........
 
Pace to those who dislike when I purport to say something about what P likes---or, more lit crit-expressed, his vision of
human beings but when a novel is overtly expressing this kind of sickness, we need some kind of take on what the author thinks healthy.
 
And, all of the above is why the book is so satiric; why we have to distrust---until we think through---what most of the characters say (Is true). 
 
 
 
 
 
 



On Monday, October 21, 2013 7:18 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
  
as America, yes.



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On Oct 21, 2013, at 4:20 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> So a few steps in and we've had Alexithymia, Borderline Personality
> Disorder, Kugelblitz theory, DSM reference. Diagnostastic!
> 
> Or are the people in Maxine's life characterised by emotional
> disconnection? Are they America? Or are they who she finds it easier
> to be around?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Luvbux 6.9"
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_%28sex_position%29
>> 
>> 
>> "big alexithymic lug"
>> 
>> http://www.alexithymia.us/test-alex.html
>> 
>> describing Horst; alexithymia is a personality construct characterized
>> by the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the
>> self. The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction
>> in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia
>> http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_25
>> 
>> 
>> "wacky sidekick"
>> 
>> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sidekick
>> 
>> 
>> "fastmouthed soubrette"
>> 
>> A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term
>> arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or
>> "coy."
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubrette
>> 
>> 
>> "Princessipality"
>> 
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