Snoody New Yorkers

[David Morris]

Snoods R sorta like female condos.  Netted pleasure. Male fetish .
Is there a female fetich?

On Thursday, September 19, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> I think he likes the word, but also the various meanings it's had over
> time. In 2001 the snood was a fashion accessory more like a massive
> neckscarf than a hair-containment device; that's what I picture March
> wearing.
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > http://posthistoricpress.blogspot.com/
>
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