BE 's Satire of Ernie: Kyrgyz @ LC & The Fast and the Furious at the Sony

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Ernie can't stand Lincoln Center. LC of course, and the novel provides
some history, is critiqued by nearly everyone for everything it was
planned for and is, everything it produces and doesn't. Maybe only the
JFK CPA is subjected to more critiques.

In any event, Ernie protested with March, against Moses and
gentrification and so on, against LC, but he can't stay away from the
Opera at LC. Not that this makes him a hypocrite but...

Ernie loves Opera. Sees it as instructive. Live Opera at LC is great
stuff and the family, with the notable exception of Maxine, loves
opera. so when Maxine finds Ernie watching an obscure comic
interpretation, a Marx Brothers Opera on the Tube,and they talk Opera
and Cop shows we have more going on than merely Pynchon's high low
culture mixing here.

Ernie maintains that, though he grounded (punished) his girls for
watching cop shows, admonished them and punished them, they watched
them and were brainwashed by them, while Maxine maintains that Ernie's
admonishments and punishments may have backfired.

So in CH 23, P needs to get everyone out of the house but Maxine and
her brother-in-law. He sends Ernie to a film at LC. Presumably,  to
the FSLC
http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/

Where else would he catch a Kyrgyz film, in 2001 at LC?

So, a very cool thing happening at LC. So LC is, like so much of NYC,
part shopping mall, part, wonderful art and culture. So Ernie's wife
and other daughter are down at Century 21 and he is at LC. But then we
are told that he's not at LC, but at the Sony Multiplex catching a cop
movie instead. The Fast and the Furious.

Nothing wrong in that. How is he going to critique cop shows and
movies if he doesn't see them?

Bu the contrast of the two films is important here.

Pynchon, of course, writes quite a bit about both, cops and Kyrgyz. So
he too watches film on both. Nothing the matter with that. Nothing
hypocritical.

But Ernie "snuck over" to Sony to see FAF. 247

Ernie is a good old guy. His paranoia is positive. But he's a bit of a
fool. He can't fool me.
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l