BEg2 ch26 Slagiattis

[rich]

being from an Italian American family who grew up partly on LI, I would say
Pynchon is speaking of those families in Suffolk County which is east of
Nassau County, not including the far richer Hamptons crowd at the tip end
of the island, it's central towns tend to be mostly lower-middle class and
generally poorer than much of Nassau County as a whole. Overall heavily
Republican and pretty much Trumpland now. btw, Suffolk County cops are one
of the best paid in the country or were when last I looked. many were
ex-NYPD

rich

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 1:30 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “Cornelia was equally stunned to find that the Slagiattis, most of whom
> were distributed along a suburban archipelago well east of the Nassau line,
> and for whom the closest thing to an Italian feast was to order in from
> Pizza Hut, did not “do warmth,” even among themselves, regulating the
> children, for example, not with the genial screaming or smacking around one
> might have expected from an adolescence spent at the Thalia watching
> neorealist films but with cold, silent, indeed one must say pathological
> glaring.”
>
>
>
> The Thalia - there are several, but I think it’s this one:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Space
>
>
> The Thalia Theater was built by the experienced theater architect Raymond
> Irrera, and his novice assistant, Ben Schlanger. Schlanger introduced
> numerous innovations, including the "reverse parabolic" design for the
> floor.
>
> After World War II, the Thalia gained a reputation as an arty repertory
> film theater. Its regular patrons included Woody Allen, Peter Bogdanovich,
> and Martin Scorsese. Woody Allen used it in Annie Hall.
>
> The Thalia closed in 1987, its future clouded by disputes between Symphony
> Space and various developers.[7]
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Space#cite_note-7> After
> Symphony
> Space won, the Thalia reopened briefly in 1993 and again in 1996. In 1999,
> Sheffer had the Art Deco interior gutted as unsalvageable, angering some
> neighborhood preservationists. The interior was used as a staging area for
> construction of a 22-story apartment building above Symphony Space.
> Afterwards the interior was rebuilt as a theater again, and in 2002 the
> space was re-opened as the Leonard Nimitz Thalia, acknowledging the actor's
> financing.
>
>
>
>          Nassau Line - is a north-south subway line, right?
>
> But then there’s these blog articles
> https://forgotten-ny.com/2011/06/queens-nassau-line-part-1/
> https://forgotten-ny.com/2011/06/borderline-crazy-queens-nassau-ii/
> https://forgotten-ny.com/2011/06/queens-nassau-line-part-3/
>
> about some affable bloke’s wandering along the borderline of Queens and
> Nassau, with a lot of engaging detail.
>
> Any New Yorkers willing to contextualize?
>
> Stray thought: East of the Nassau Line is towards the sea - there’s
> something in early part of GR about the expendable preterite of London
> dwelling closer to the sea & to invaders.
> --
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>