GRGR(28): Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont

[Jeremy Osner]

First words of the new book: "Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont are in the
curly-Cuvillies drawing-room of somebody's palatial home." (What, pray
tell, does "curly-Cuvillies" mean?) This is Slothrop's dream.

Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont -- they are nice symbols, I think, for
Elect and Preterite. I'm not really up on film history or anything but
from watching old movies I've gotten an impression of BD as "the girl
who wouldn't give me the time of day in high school" and of MD as
someone I would be smoking pot with in the alley behind school.

Jeremy