MJJW - Mumbo Jumbo Jes Grew - pgs 1-10

[Becky Lindroos]

Is it okay if we call this read “MJJG” ? (Mumbo Jumbo Jes Grew) I like that.  

I’ve finished to page 20 - it goes fast.  I’m going to go ahead and finish the book, but then I’ll be around for each section because I’ll know how it fits.  And I’ll keep my words to the pages at hand in case of spoilers.  I do enjoy a quality second reading of a good book.  

So far, excellent, fun. Thank you, Cag and Mark for the opening info (below) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_New_Orleans#Jazz
- and the graphic there is like an illustration of page 6 -  

Bekah

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On Oct 27, 2020, at 6:38 PM, Cagliostro_the_Impossible via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> "This morning. We goy reports from down here that people were doing "stupid sensual things," were in a state of "uncontrollable frenzy," were wriggling like fish, doing something called the "Eagle Rock" and the "Sassy Bump"; were cutting a mean "Mooche" and "lusting after relevance." We decoded this coon mumbo jumbo. We know that something was Jes Grewing just like the 1890s flair-up." (pg. 4)
> 
> The 1890s drop is fascinating, the 1890s was essentially the beginning of high court sanctioned segregation
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson). A-and you have early ragtime music hitting mainstream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc).
> Also, during the period (1890s-1917ish) Jazz exploded in Storyville, close to Place Congo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville,_New_Orleans). I cede the floor to those in the know in the Big Easy...
> 
> Marie Laveau:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX8RXWBXSXM
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> How about from today to Saturday Oct 31, we read the first 10 pages, which
>> in this
>> fiction seemingly conceived from form and structure even before page 13
>> where MUMBO
>> JUMBO gets writ large as if the novel begins
>> there....
>> 
>> SO LET's read from page 3 to 13 and say what we see and think.
>> 
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