Snoody New Yorkers

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Going slower than everyone else, on account of job, art prod., & a
compulsion to read every word twice, so am only now at ch. 6.
Honestly, Pynchon and his snood fetish only gets more obscure as time
deserts us. Why is he so fixated on them? The humorous, childish sound
of the noun? The exoticism of a  period where a woman's hair was
considered intimate, erotic terrain, an element of self to be kept
chaste from the fingers of the wind? Or is it one of a grab-bag of
tropes he keeps near to hand, as a Prompt when he finds himself stuck
on how to write a passage?

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