M&D: Smallest possible spoiler (chapter 3)

[Paul York]

Mathew Jacobson wrote:
 
> >I'm hearing a drop in volume and a rise in pitch, a sort of trailing
> >off...?  (I also visualize the speaker failing to make eye contact with
> >the speakee -- textually justifiable? Ennh.)  Not unlike my own speech
> >pattern when I try to run an unusually dumb idea by my wife, "Honey, I
> >figured I'd save us some money and fix the alternator myself...?"
> >
> 
> Interesting call ‹
> 
> this is a peculiarly modern - uh... postmodern speech pattern.  Tons of kids from the slacker/gen-x talk like this.
> 
> Seems things are so confused about what is real and what is a commercial, and foax are so afraid of making declarative statements 
because they¹re not pc, or do
> 
> But did foax speak like that way back when?

Well, I won't make any assertions about how foax may or may not have 
talked in the 18th Century...?  But it wouldn't surprise me, or bother 
me, if this were a possible anachronism on Pynchon's part, not unlike

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Dixon's experience with the bottle of ketjap (An-ti-cipation, is making 
me wait...).  Granted, this, too, may be, intentionally or not, an 
historically accurate scene, but I think it is primarily working off its 
evocation of the contemporary, tube-friendly domestic scene.