Snoody New Yorkers

[Laura Kelber]

I live in Midwood, which has become an Orthodox Jewish enclave, and often see women wearing snoods ( in lieu of headscarves) over their hair ( or is it over their wigs? Not sure what the rules are - I come from the Commie strain). Believe me, the snood as a sign of sexual repression is alive and well in the 'wood 'hood.

Just finished Chapter 11 (of the book, not bankruptcy), and so far, it's far superior to Inherent Vice. But Pynchon doesn't know his Jews as well as he thinks he does. 

Laura 

On Sep 19, 2013, at 11:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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