From a person under this name on FACEBOOK....good shit.

[Henry M]

Catching up on email. LOVE this!

Yours truly,

Henry Mu
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 7:23 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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> In the Bleeding Edge promo blurb, Pynchon hints about a possible cameo by
> Jerry Seinfeld.
>
> If you think of “Jerry Seinfeld” in maybe more of a specialized way... He
> does appear multiple times in Bleeding Edge
>
> The character Reg Despard IS Jerry Seinfeld.
>
> Reg gets high praise by a professor for his bootlegging ways. Jerry gets
> the same praise from a criminal movie pirate named Brody in The Little
> Kicks (Episode 4, Season 8 )
>
> One of Jerry’s nicknames on the show is just “Jer”. Elaine calls him that
> sometimes. Spell it backwards: Rej
>
> The ‘unscheduled guest appearance’ mentioned in the promo blurb corresponds
> to Reg’s debut in the book: Having shown up at Maxine’s job unannounced -
> without an appointment.
>
> Aspects of the scene from BE in which Horst gobbles the Ben & Jerry’s ice
> cream are lifted directly from the part of the episode in which Kramer is
> eating Jerry’s Healthy Choice ice cream right out of the container.
>
> Of course, the Ben & “Jerry’s” ice cream is another ‘cameo’ of Jerry
> Seinfeld (Note the apostrophe indicating ownership)
>
> In that case, could the “Ben” be a curious incarnation of Benny Profane?
>
> Kramer and Horst both eat their ice cream directly out of the carton.
>
> Also: the Seinfeld character’s name is: “Kozmo Kramer”
>
> In Chapter One of BE we have: “Krispy Kreme”
>
> ... Remember those ‘Kute Korrespondences’ of Gravity’s Rainbow ?
>
> P.S. When Jerry learns from Brody about bootlegging: He becomes a Pirate
> Apprentice 🏴‍☠️ 🍌 (A-and wasn’t there a Brody mention in V. ?)
>
> And another thing: Sooo, Horst Loeffler sits down to eat Ben & Jerry’s
> “Chunky Monkey” ice cream, and he digs in with both hands using two
> oversize spoons.
>
> This particular Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor is banana-flavored with
> chocolate chunks and walnuts.
>
> The most glaring link with the fact that it’s ICE cream would be to the
> characters of Gabriel Ice and Immanuel Ice (He appears with someone named
> Horst near the end of Mason & Dixon) but the scene also resembles an homage
> to the rainbow-colored spider-MONKEYS that Stencil’s father digs out of
> CHUNKS of ice in Vheissu.
>
> in Against the Day: Webb dreams of doing violence with a ‘chunk of ice’
>
> The ice cream being banana-flavored, of course, recalls Gravity’s Rainbow’s
> Banana Breakfast.
>
> The surname Loeffler means “spoon maker,” - and Horst is eating the ice
> cream with two spoons. Maxine notes that one of the spoons is for mooshing
> the ice, and the other is for scooping it out.
>
> The bird in the photo below is a white colored Loeffler/Spoonbill. See the
> huge spoon-shaped nose? This aligns with Horst using such oversized spoons.
>
> The given name Horst may be suggestive of Nazi things, but Pynchon was also
> aware of the geological meaning of the word horst, because just after his
> name is introduced into Bleeding Edge, it’s mentioned that Maxine uses
> Fleetwood Mac’s song “Landslide” to cope during their break-up. To speak
> about a landslide in Old English, they would’ve said “eorðgebyrst”;
> literally "earth-burst."
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