grgr (34): "but not a pontiac in the lot" (756)

[Otto Sell]

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Subject: grgr (34): "but not a pontiac in the lot" (756)


>
>  why? what is the poetic function of these words? - kfl

"If there is any logic to this list, perhaps it is that Pontiacs were named
for the eighteenth-century chief of the Ottawa Indians, the likes of whom
had to be pitchforked further west by whites like Abe Lincoln and Henry
Ford."
(Weisenburger, p. 315)
Sez Weisenburger - sez I:
was H. Ford really involved - thought that guy was later?
On *lot* - TRP uses every possible meaning of *lot* in "Lot 49 that can be
found in a dictionary including *parking lot* in chapter 2, which starts
with Mucho whistling a song from *Sick Dick and The Volkswagens.*

Otto
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