Modest complement of MJJG obs

[Mark Kohut]

I am sorry to be a laggard. This is good and I will be posting belatedly but finally soon. 

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> On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:51 AM, Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
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> Nook pagination may be idiosyncratic but...
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> 3-13 as Mark suggested, in the Nook book, covers chapters 1 & 2
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> Chapter 1
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> I made some tentative suggestions about already and while nobody agreed (wah), nobody out and out said they stunk (hurrah).
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> Somewhat emboldened, the rest of my thotz on Chapter 1:
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> a) Is the mayor supposed to be a white dude?
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> 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.
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> 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!)
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> c) news-flash style hearkens back to Dos Passos, inter alia
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> Chapter 2:
> Very brief almost just a list of cities and not the biggest ones either.
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> Pleasant surprise - must’ve cost quite a bit extra to print MJ what with such goodies:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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...
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> I have Kindle and Nook myself and the county library system doesn’t have _Mumbo Jumbo_ so I might
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> get a Nook book of it now that I’ve finished the free preview. (Did that)
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> Hesitant to support the Kindle because of
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> all the casualties in Amazon warehouses, although
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> 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
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> pleasant to hold especially if they come from a
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> smoker’s library —- from a potsmoker’s library
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> would be ideal.
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