Modest complement of MJJG obs

[Raphael Saltwood]

Nook pagination may be idiosyncratic but...

3-13 as Mark suggested, in the Nook book, covers chapters 1 & 2

Chapter 1

I made some tentative suggestions about already and while nobody agreed (wah), nobody out and out said they stunk (hurrah).

Somewhat emboldened, the rest of my thotz on Chapter 1:

a) Is the mayor supposed to be a white dude?

b) Zulu, his disrespected love interest, (smokes Chesterfields - “not a cough in a carload” per RWR) isn’t seen to complain about what looks like cavalier treatment, but the mayor isn’t supposed to be a role model, and - like a lot of the stuff in novels - he’s not saying you should try it at home, right? And unfortunately this does reflect some elected officials in terms of behavior toward members of the opposite sex.

Not that it’s any of my business, but Ishmael Reed, married since 1970 to Carla Blank, seems to have a different philosophy altogether than the mayor. (Really impressive marriage, imho!)

c) news-flash style hearkens back to Dos Passos, inter alia

Chapter 2:
Very brief almost just a list of cities and not the biggest ones either.

Pleasant surprise - must’ve cost quite a bit extra to print MJ what with such goodies:

A rather nice line drawing of hmmm, a person bestrode (bestridden?) by an angel, or, ridden by Papa Legba, although the style is more Masonic or Templar what with the angel apparently handing over a sword - and both of them kind of stiff and unbending - seems more like a Wallflower League vision than a manifestation of Jes Grew.

I shall forge ahead with the next 10 pages and I hope you will too
(I won’t be gone long -
you come too! - Robert Frost)

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Cagliostro the Impossible wrote:

I love Mumbo Jumbo... I'm reading a Kindle version now (lame, right?) but I gave my copy
to a tarot reader at this ashram I would frequent in Pasadena (yes, in Pasadena...)... I
was living in Burbank at the time, would ride my Kawasaki W series to see this glorious
California Blonde with pulsating green eyes... we would listen to Bossa Nova records, and I gave her Mumbo Jumbo in lieu of payment...



I have Kindle and Nook myself and the county library system doesn’t have _Mumbo Jumbo_ so I might

get a Nook book of it now that I’ve finished the free preview. (Did that)

 Hesitant to support the Kindle because of

all the casualties in Amazon warehouses, although

BN is no model of labor relations either - hey maybe a new copy via Powell’s would be nice although the older funkier looking used paperbacks are more

pleasant to hold especially if they come from a

smoker’s library —- from a potsmoker’s library

would be ideal.