V.V. (14) SHOCK and SHROUD

[jbor]

>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: V.V. (14) SHOCK and SHROUD
>Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001, 4:13 PM

> 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
snip

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>

>  But why,
> then, the "Oley"?  To complete the vaguely Scandinavian (Danish,
> perhaps?) effect?  "Yel(l)o(w)" backwards, but ...

Perhaps Olé?

olé (interj.) 1. an exclamation of approval or encouragement customary at
bullfights, flamenco dancing, and other Spanish or Latin American events.
(n.) 2. a cry of olé. [Spanish, from Arabic wa-llah: "wa" and + "allah" God]

But I don't know quite where that allusive chain might be leading ...

Also, that "avant-garde western called *Existentialist Sheriff*" which Benny
is reading (284.7) immediately brings *Warlock* to mind again, and links him
(if only tenuously) to Ruby/Paola, "smoking and reading a western" as she
waits for McLintic (281.19).

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