More M&D questions--any answers? Up to p. 130

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

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> p. 96 - Anyone know what "taking the Machine to New Castle" means?

Is it too early for this to be a railway engine?

> p. 100 - I wonder if anyone can shed light on the incident in which "Harry
> Clasper out-keel'd the Lad from Hetton-le-Hole...?"

Hetton-Le-Hole may be a real North East place name, along the lines of
Witton-le-Wear (I shite ye not). N.B. the `Le' part is pronounced as
in `lee-shore'.

> Uno mas.  p. 104 - "...the _Scamozetta_ from _I Gluttoni"?  Translation?
> Don't we have at least one Italian on the list?

Looks remarkably like `The Little Scan' from `The Gluttons', he says,
smoaking an attempt at humour on Pynchon's part.


Andrew Dinn
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