BEg2 ch 34 coupla notes

[Mark Kohut]

In his Philosophy, Bob Dylan focuses on the two Bobby Darin hit songs among
his chosen 66.

Among other things he says Darin wanted to be Sinatra but no one else could
be. One major reason,
sez Bob, is that Sinatra had the foundation---Cf. "*Forever Young*"---that
Darin's life never gave him. Divorced
parents, other things. ............

Dissonance?......the songs out of the life?......what he did to *Beyond the
Sea (or Mack the Knife, based on Brecht--Weill's*
*song before the Doors hit) *

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 5:55 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Where were we?
>
> Maxine sees Windust in a finisher’s cape after the NYC Marathon.
>
> “ But the Jewish Mother, sitting silent in the dark,
>             has suddenly chosen this moment to jump up, switch on the
> tasteful lamp from Scully
>             & Scully, and blindside Maxine into yet another shameful
> display of eppes-essen solicitude. For a second she hopes Windust is too
> exhausted. But fitness prevails,
>             and he’s on his feet, and before she can think up an excuse
> they are sitting in a
>             retro lunchwagon on Columbus”
>
> Scully & Scully -
> https://www.scullyandscully.com
>
> eppes-essen - “something to eat” implication of kindly soft-pedaling the
> notion
>
>
> Windust wearing outdated
> Mizuno Waves -
>
> https://www.runningshoesguru.com/2016/10/a-look-back-at-20-years-of-mizuno-wave-rider-and-a-giveaway/
>
> Giggacino - a Pynchonism; Windust drank 3
> (& ate 3 bagels & a Western omelet)
>
>
> “On the way home she passes the neighborhood firehouse. They’re in working
> on one of
>             the trucks. Maxine recognizes a guy she sees all the time in
> the Fairway buying huge
>             amounts of food. They smile and wave. Cute kid. Under different
> circumstances . .. Of which as usual there are not enough. ”
>
> She may be back with Horst but she still keeps her
> eyes open.
>
> She contrasts the firefighters with Windust:
>
> “ If it isn’t the pay, isn’t the glory, and sometimes you don’t come back,
> then what
>             is it? What makes these guys choose to go in, work twenty-four
> hour shifts and then
>             keep working, keep throwing themselves into those shaky ruins,
> torching through steel, bringing people to safety,
>             recovering parts of others, ending up sick, beat up by
> nightmares, disrespected, dead?
>
>
>          Whatever it is, would Windust even recognize it? How far has he
> journeyed from working
>             realities? What sanctuary has he sought, and what, if any,
> given?”
>
>
>
>
> She meets up with Rocky in Crumirazzi’s deli while buying turkey, after
> verbally confronting a would-be line-jumper (who’s then felled by a frozen
> turkey to the head, the thrower receiving applause)
>
>
> “Hey, your friend from Montreal? That Felix guy with the antizapper? We’re
> givin him
>             some bridge money, Spud Loiterman has a sixth sense, he says
> go.”
>
>          “So you want to hire me now, or wait till Felix is what Bobby
> Darin calls ‘beyond
>             the sea’?”
>
>          “Yeah, OK, he’s working a hustle, so what, I was like that once, I
> can relate, and
>             anyway who am I to second-guess the Dean Martin of Dissonance?”
>
>
> Dean Martin of Dissonance? Bobby Darin?
>
> https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LyricalDissonance
>
> Maybe? Eg the cheery tune of “Mack the Knife?”
> --
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>