M & D Ducking Deep Jokes

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'm assuming the punchline would've been some snipe at the Jesuit?

Two different views of Jesuits (the conspiracy theories about Jesuits sound very much like the conspiracy theories about Jews):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_conspiracy_theories

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/14/pope-francis-is-a-jesuit-seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-society-of-jesus.html

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 12, 2015 8:07 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: M & D Ducking Deep Jokes
>
>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?
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