GRGR(9): Norfolk jacket

[David Morris]

You know what the word assume means?

What threw me off was "from whom the original fog-silvered wool was 
sheared."

Jimmy Buffet?  UUUGGHH!!!!

>From: "John A. McNamara" <jmcnamara at datum.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: GRGR(9): Norfolk jacket
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:52:04 -0400
>
>David Morris sez:
> >
> > . . . Tantivy . . .  has Slothrop put on
> > his Norfolk jacket, which is white, I
> > presume.
>
>I always thought Norfolk jackets were tweed?
>
>Regardless of Pynchon's intent, a tweed
>jacket is funnier and more awful in that
>situation than a white one.  A white jacket
>w/ Hawaiian shirt would just turn our man
>into Jimmy Buffet (who may or may not have
>ever gigged with The Fool).
>
>
>-j
>
>--
>John A. McNamara		jmcnamara at datum.com
>Senior Software Engineer, Datum E-Business Solutions
>
>Ontology recapitulates philology . . . or something.
>

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