V.V. (14) SHOCK and SHROUD

[Dave Monroe]

Oh, dear.  Gone for a day, and all sorts of nastiness
breaks out here.  You couldn't have waited for me ...?
 Anyway, here's a little something that I'd posted
earlier in annotating that "Space/Time Employment
Agency" (again, see Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man,
Ch. 16) which is again relevant here ...

http://pynchonfiles.com/shock.htm

And, again, keep in mind, a bergomask (as in Oley
Bergomask) is, among other things, a dance performed
in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream V.i
by a pair of "rustics," by two of the "rude
mechanicals" of Bottom's company ...

http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/amnd5-1.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=98&sort=date

Not that SHOCK and SHROUD are necessarily impolite,
but ...


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