Snoody New Yorkers

[Max Nemtsov]

he knows his Russians though )) sorta cartoonish but recognizable
Detsl gets a mention and this is gonna be his lasting trail in history 
(no, I'm not a fan)
the rant on Russian ice-cream is technically correct, to the best of my 
memory
I never dismantled Latvian jef in a lab so I don't know but it looks 
plausible
Mx

On 20.09.2013 16:28, Laura Kelber wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <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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