The March Hare's Tale of One City with Two Mayors
Fiona Shnapple
fionashnapple at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 09:40:12 CDT 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BWje4P7dc
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Fiona Shnapple
<fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> The layering is chronological and geographic, as usual, space-time
> doublings abound. The school the kids attend, for example, puts on
> Guys and Dolls, a stretch for kids their age, but, we might think,
> well it is Yupper-ville after all, so the gangster slang of Rap is in
> the House,
>
> But it's LaGuardia, where Madona's daughter goes to school, a public school.
>
> The West Side Story geography, where the Latins are run out to make
> room for Lincoln Center, suburban no white flight Jewish culture, and
> the high school, where the UWS white kids, almost all Jewish faculty
> and staff, now a bit more more Asian, but not Black or Latino, and
> though 70% of NYC students are either Black or Latino, only 14% white,
> 14 % "Asian", is considered a white school with Twinkies and Bananas
> (Asian who identify white), and a handful of"majority" kids.
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> In Pynchon's layered, associative, Empsonian ambiguous way, is BE ( in its way of financial mystery) also pointing to, semi-allegorizing ( loosely, very loosely so find a better word) about the time after the time of the novel---per Fiona below---and right up to the global financial crash of 2008?
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-no-fan-banksy
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Though the novel is set before Bloomberg takes over everything and sets up
>>>> his crony capitalism. a Jewish Mafia plus, Bloomberg is March's King,
>>>> Rudy the Mayor that attacks the artists and arts, Mike, the mayor that
>>>> pays them off, buys them.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/24/opinion/the-mayor-as-art-censor.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/met-granted-charge-mandatory-entrance-fee-bloomberg-article-1.1496256
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://bookreviewalley.wordpress.com/?s=banned
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