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[Atticus Pinecone]

He forms a labor union with Pencil...

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Your lead is true, of course, as Alice always knew and I will
> read the rest of it.....
> 
> but I have this comment on what is visible: Remember that Benny
> is said--says--he never changed near the end of the cook. 
> 
> Which means his 'salvation' is to be who he was...yes, thru two women,
> nicely said here
> 
> but remember all the way to the book's end....
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:08 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pynchon interest in American Labor is there from the start. We see it
>> in the short stories and, of course, in his first novel, V..
>> 
>> So much has been written, here and elsewhere, about Benny Profane, but
>> this essay does a wonderful job of tying together the Work theme with
>> women and the inanimate.
>> 
>> Menachem Feuer
>> 
>> Schlemiels, Women & (In)animate Yo-Yos in Thomas Pynchon’s “V”
>> 
>> January 17, 2017
>> 
>> an excerpt here------>>>>>>>>
>> 
>> Rather, Pynchon suggests that the schlemiel’s relationship to work,
>> inanimate “things,” and the feminine provides the reader with an acute
>> sense of the schlemiel’s prominent space in Pynchon’s vision of
>> America.  While Updike’s schlemiel seems to be outside the ken of
>> salvation, Pynchon’s does not. But the salvation of Pynchon’s
>> schlemiel, Benny Profane, is comical not sacred. It is, like the comic
>> character, partial or better yet, double. Living a better life is his
>> salvation. But what makes the schlemiel’s path to life unique is that
>> it comes through a relationship to two women, which reflect his own
>> identity which is half-Catholic and half-Jewish. Both women take him
>> from being an inanimate yo-yo who dreads failure and wandering the
>> streets, alone, to an animated schlemiel with a temp job and a
>> (temporary) home.
>> 
>> Read the rest here----------------------------------->>>>
>> 
>> http://www.berfrois.com/2017/01/menachem-feuer-thomas-pynchon-schlemiel/
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:53 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 11 Revelations From Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, ‘Joseph Anton’
>> >
>> >
>> > 9. Pynchon Emerges Almost every major writer lent their support to
>> > Rushdie during the fatwa years (with the notable exception of John le
>> > Carré.) One of them, “another famous invisible man,” was Thomas
>> > Pynchon, and this gave Rushdie particular excitement. The two dined
>> > together during one of Rushdie’s New York trips, and Pynchon spoke at
>> > length about American labor history. They never met again after that.
>> -
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