Snoody New Yorkers

Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 20 07:45:08 CDT 2013


I rather thought it was like another "cover-up" -   a semi-mask.

Bekah


On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:05 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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