Snoody New Yorkers

[alice wellintown]

I think snood, not a perfect rhyme with hood, but it rhymes, as wind and
kind rhyme,  as in the black kid in the hood, wearing the hood on his head,
is suggested here and elsewhere in the narrative. You might get shot!  As
in, What I Got, a pop hit, that resonates at the musical level with the
Beatles, pop again with the hoodie kids, and takes off from Lady Madonna
who wears, a snood.

Dixon, in his wide wake brim would get the politics.

In nyc, we got one turntable and a microphone. This ain't no Becking
California story.

On Thursday, September 19, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six 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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