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Pynchon's Lot 49

Less implausible is Don’s young wife handing him a copy of the current Beatles album, Revolver, and telling him to take a listen to help get him a clue. But she actually instructs him to “start with this one,” and we see him put the needle down on the first track, and hear “Tomorrow Never Knows.” For a show so fetishistic about detail, why screw up such a basic? “TMK” is the final track on side two, it takes the album out. She would have had to cue it up for him at the very least. Or explained why she was choosing the most experimental track. She could have simply started him out with “Taxman,” and he would have gotten that one. Did anybody ever turn on an old fuddy-duddy to the band with “TNK” when they could have chosen “Eleanor Rigby,” “Good Day Sunshine” or “Here, There and Everywhere” off the same album? Is such a notion at all believable to the character of Don’s trophy wife, who’s emerging as smarter, savvier, and more true to herself? #

Tim Goodman notes how the title references a Sylvia Plath poem, and how Pete reads Pynchon’s “Crying of Lot 49″ on the train, but we strained to see the title of his book and couldn’t make it out even in hi-def. This kind of thing grates. There’s all kinds of interpretive cherries to nibble, between that yawping elevator shaft right after he kisses his wife goodbye from the firm to the suicide insurance coverage Pete’s friend teases him with. Ann Powers maintains that Draper would have certainly been a Beatle hound — perhaps the idea is that he’s so alienated from himself he drifts in a non-Beatle universe even as they conquer every known world, including advertising. The overriding idea I took, which I really liked, was how “TMK” sounds just as confoundingly enticingly today as it did nearly fifty years ago. #

Will Roger dose Don’s coffee? #

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Copyright expired drawing of participants of Vatican One Council during pontificate of Pius IX (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So when I heard that the Vatican had ordered a crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. sisters, accusing them of spending too much time “promoting issues of social justice,” I was stunned. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been, given Rome’s historic failure to support its best and brightest… #

And Garry Wills chimed in via the NYRB: #

…Nuns have always had a different set of priorities from that of bishops. The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them. The priests drive their own new cars, while nuns ride the bus (always in pairs). The priests specialize in arrogance, the nuns in humility… #

It is typical of the pope’s sense of priorities that, at the very time when he is quashing an independent spirit in the church’s women, he is negotiating a welcome back to priests who left the church in protest at the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. These men, with their own dissident bishop, Marcel Lefebvre, formed the Society of Saint Pius X—the Pius whose Secretariat of State had a monsignor (Umberto Benigni) who promoted the Protocols of the Elder of Zion. Pope Benedict has already lifted the excommunication of four bishops in the Society of Saint Pius X, including that of Richard Williamson, who is a holocaust denier. Now a return of the whole body is being negotiated. #

None of the anti-Semitic ties of the Pius X crew matter to Rome, since that crew holds to the hard line against women priests, gay marriage, and contraception. They have also retained the Latin Mass, which Rome has been inching back toward. All these things, you see, are the work solely of male hierarchs, distrustful of the People of God—who are the church, as defined by the Second Vatican Council. Those Lefebvre defiers of the Council are all the things the nuns are not, and all the things Rome wants to restore. The real Gospel must be quashed in the name of the pseudo-Gospel of papal monarchs. Poor Anne O’Connor—she thought caring for the poor was what Jesus wanted. She did not live to see that what Rome wants is all that matters. #

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Colbert hosted the dinner: #

“Also, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke is here tonight.  Also an instant, instant feminist icon.  Famously tested, testified before Congress, that Georgetown, a Catholic institution,should be required to provide insurance coverage for her birth control.Now, TIME 100 honoree, his eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan disagrees — sir, lovely to see you again.Of course, now some, some critics have said in response to this that if the Catholic churchs insurance does not cover Sandra Flukes birth control, it shouldnt cover Cardinal Dolans Viagra.Oh, no, no, no.  Oh, no, no, no, thats called celibacy plus.  Thats how the pros do it.  Because chastity is one thing, but it shows true commitment to uphold your vows when you are sporting a crook you could hang a miter on.  Oh, wow, see you at mass on Sunday, sir?I hope he doesnt become Pope.Im a Catholic, its okay.  I go to confession, it will be fine.  Thank you.” #

via The Page by Mark Halperin | Clinton and Colbert at the TIME 100. #

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Actress and filmmaker Lena Dunham attends the 'Supporting Characters' Premiere during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the AMC Lowes Village on April 20, 2012 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

I have tattoos from children’s books all over my arms and torso. The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also had, but his was a different page. What a good message that book has! Just be yourself and don’t gore anyone with your horns if you don’t feel like it. #

Lena Dunham, #

NYTimes Book Review, April 22 #

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Experience Music Conference, #popcon #

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Shearer also picked up two vastly under covered stories from this past week: #

Jacksonville’s Darrell Gilyard, the Baptist preacher who’s presence in the pulpit requires that no children be allowed in the pews as a condition of his status as a sex offender. #

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH #

“They gave Kafka to the troops,” closing line of Leon Wieseltier’s essay on books in the New Republic. #

RUNNER-UP #

Docked a notch for the ease of this target: Rick Santorum vs. Megadeath’s Dave Mustaine, from Mother Jones. Points for plenitude. #

BEHIND IN MY TV #

Just started watching Homeland, highwire narrative about how 9/11 spooked the intelligence “community,” and sent it off stealing anti-depressants, drowning in warrantless wiretaps, and playing footsie with the Pentagon. This from the Episode 5, where a redeemed Mandy Patinkin addresses an Al-Qaeda operative: “You’re a religious man who tortures people. What are you a Catholic?” #

BAMBOOZLED BY THE HERMANATOR #

Disqualified after winning more than any other byline in history, from his latest New Yorker short: Callista to Newt, “You’re converting for the third time?” #

BECAUSE IT’S FROM BOULDER, COLORADO, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HOME #

“Co-Writing Is Some Tricky Business,” worthwhile clicking, safe for work. #