Pynch's Caps; Was (Re: Mr. Vidal's case)

[David Morris]

>From: Paul Mackin
>>An odd thing for me, and others as I recall from the group reading, was 
>>the frequent initial caps in NONproper nouns when in English the usual 
>>practice is not to use a cap. It's an emphasis supplying mechanism 
>>analogous to italicizing. Maybe it's an 18th Century practice.<<

I thought that was the case when I read M&D, but since now reading GR again, 
I've found the same odd use of caps here as well.  In GR they seems to 
indicated the special, or archetype, use of that noun.  In M&D they seem to 
be used w/out any specialness at all...

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