M & D Ducking Deep Jokes

[Mark Kohut]

The Corsican sez, turning belligerently to the Jesuit, barely nodding
toward the Chinaman-- "YOU let him in the country!"....

yes, a goof on the 3 into a bar bit and all characterized via
stereotypes. Cherrycoke gives us stereotypes, TRP keeps showing.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:35 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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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>>Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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