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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:10 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> With Angel. Actually the union is formed by "Walter Reuther. "
>
> In his prime, Reuther was influential and powerful enough to frighten
> conservatives. In 1958, later presidential candidate Barry Goldwater
> declared Reuther a "more dangerous menace than the Sputnikor anything
> Soviet Russia might do to America."
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther
>
>
> Here's a look at the unemployment rate for what Pynchon, Benny and Zoyd.
>
> The spike after P graduates from Cornell is followed by a decade of
> decline, down to 1.4%
> When Zoyd wakes up in 1984 the rate has dropped from the peak but is
> still historically high.
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Atticus Pinecone
> <atticuspinecone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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