BEg2 ch 34 - I imagined the applause

[Thomas Eckhardt]

This is Thomas Pynchon showing Jonathan Franzen how funny scenes at a
New York deli are done.

Am 10.12.2022 um 09:08 schrieb Michael Bailey:
> “ Shifting to indignation, “I have a houseful of children to feed—” but
> he’s interrupted
>              by a voice someplace over by the loading dock hollering, “Hey
> asshole!” and here cannonballing
>              over the heads of the crowd comes a frozen turkey, hits the
> bothersome yup square
>              in the head, knocking him flat and bouncing off his head into
> the hands of Maxine,
>              who stands blinking at it like Bette Davis at some baby with
> whom she must unexpectedly
>              share the frame. She hands the object to the lady behind her.
> “This is yours, I guess.”
>
>
>           “What, after it touched him? thanks anyway.”
>
>           “I’ll take it,” sez the guy behind her.
>
>           As the line creeps forward, everybody makes sure to step on, not
> over, the fallen
>              line jumper.”
>
>
> I guess the term is “tacit approval” -