BEg2 ch 21 that old music

[Mark Kohut]

And I love this for its perfectly-used meaning up thru today and the years
in between BE and now:
"Conkling,"  Maxine gently and not for the first time, "that doesn't make
Hitler a big U-boat lover, by that point
there was nobody else he trusted and somehow, the logic here?"

Maxine is the critical thinking centered intelligence of this novel, the
mind whose perceptions  and thinking we admire, have to.
Another little anti-conspiracy thinking jape by TRP through Maxine.
That matters for our perception of everything else and most, for getting
the mysterious plot.

Pynchon:  Hitler, a vegetarian and non-smoker would not have even smelled
bad were it not for his perfume. Who else, who else
I proclaim to the skies could ever come up with this and suggest so much in
what seems like a comic aside or simple set piece.



On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 6:35 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right there, pp 232-234, we find a fave Pynchon thing---breaking into song
> in the middle
> of whatever book---
> A lament for Silicon Alley, what the tech district of NYC was
> called....the early good times are gone.
> but "these streets are still thronging/ with hustling and longing"....
> "I'm in a new place now, / the rent's high, the dates lie"
>
> Late decadent destructive capitalism in NYC....
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:11 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maxine “takes a break, finds Conkling browsing through back issues of
>> Fraud
>> magazine. “
>>
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>>
>> Heidi is wearing Poison - and Conkling is not immune
>>
>> https://basenotes.com/fragrances/poison-by-christian-dior.10210710/reviews
>>
>> One of the 116 reviews:
>>
>> Dior Poison (1985) is a perfume for ladies who needed to absolutely blow
>> the doors off when they made an entrance, and for some guys who wanted to
>> leave a scandalous trail too. While not explicitly unisex, Poison has both
>> intimidation and allure that defies gender, to the point where it was
>> infamously banned from some restaurants in the 1980's when launched.
>> Previously, only Giorgio Beverly Hills (1981) had received that notoriety,
>> but moreso for volume than tone. Poison is an altogether different beast;
>> this perfume envelops a space, subverts the atmosphere, and changes the
>> mood of everyone present, and like actual poison, can corrupt or destroy
>> those unable to withstand it. Dior Poison is technically an oriental, but
>> has so many dark, fruity, floral, and green aspects that it is truly
>> abstract. The perfume became quite ubiquitous in its heyday despite its
>> controversial nature, and although nowadays it's still rather
>> recognizable,
>> Poison has becoming something of a rare bird of prey among the pigeons
>> that
>> are both the current market and its many flankers.
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