The Secret integration

[ish mailian]

Mark,
Springfield, as you know, played a crucial role in the anti-slavery
and abolitionist periods and was a destination of Blacks during the
Great Migration.

It is some 40 miles East of The Berkshires, where, as the narrator
indicates in the exposition to the tale is a place New Yorkers flood
to for vacation, as they still do.

The Barringtons, a black family there, are something of an exception,
as racial hostility and economics would limit the prospects of most
Blacks, so buying a house in the white community would be unusual and,
of course,  the real estate business, red lining and the rest would
prevent  integration, and, though they have no children so the
"threat" they pose to their white and racist neighbors, is strictly
economic,  and not one of schools integration, we can see that Pynchon
wants the Northern, New England town, as opposed to the Southern
setting of Twain's classics, the texts that are the parodic
intellectuals. The setting, I think, works brilliantly.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> The story is set close to home, a town perhaps like TRP grew up in.     He sez it was greyhound trips and such that made it real enough, better than the others. Which he had to reimagine closer to home. What budding artists do. And written after V, set farther away than his hometown- like place, historical and outside of America AND also in NYC, which was a new "home" during V. So I think it interesting what he says makes it OK, that 's really all and not much at all, I see .
>
> But there is this: closer to his home and then the next one his new home. Home  as found, as a good scholar titled his book about American Literature.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:51 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why is hoe in quotes? Not sure I'm following you here, Mark.
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>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> TRP sez in this story he felt and started to get down some of the world he saw on Greyhound trips, etc. That included the imagining of a broke black musician in a hotel w a drinking problem.
>>> What else in this story set closer to "home" than most of V?
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>>> Sent from my iPhone-
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