M & D Ducking Deep Jokes

[rich]

just a goof on three guys walk into a bar comic riff? Pynchon loves this
shit

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> pp. 15-16. "There's this Jesuit, this Corsican, this Chinaman"....
>
> anyone care to write the joke?
>
> Since we never learn Pynchon's joke but what we
> do learn is this "proper Englishwoman...gives
> them 'scandalized Glances' about which the hot-headed Corsican
> responds with that eternally hostile response.
> "What ye looking at"?........and we never get her response
>
> since Mason is appalled at the (probable) dirtiness of the joke...
> 'Sailors are staring"......
>
> Riff.
>
> What I am going to note is that this is the first of many
> Glances in this story as told........what might Glances mean
> associatively in the English--American 'society' of this telling?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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