Winthrop Tremaine

[Dave Monroe]

   "'What's your name?' Oedipa said.
   "'Winthrop Tremaine,' replied the spirited
entrepreneur, 'Winner, for short.  Listen, now we're
getting up an arrangement with one of the big
ready-to-wear outfits in L.A. to see how the SS
uniforms go for the fall.  We're working it with the
back-to-school campaign, lot of 37 longs, you know,
teenage kid sizes.  Next season we may go all the way
and get out a modified version for the ladies.  How
would that strike you?" (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 149)
                                           
Main Entry: trem·ble 
Pronunciation: 'trem-b&l
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): trem·bled; trem·bling 
/-b(&-)li[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French
trembler, from Medieval Latin tremulare, from Latin
tremulus tremulous, from tremere to tremble; akin to
Greek tremein to tremble
Date: 14th century
1 : to shake involuntarily (as with fear or cold) :
SHIVER
2 : to move, sound, pass, or come to pass as if shaken
or tremulous <the building trembled from the blast>
3 : to be affected with fear or doubt <tremble for the
safety of another>
- trem·bler  /-b(&-)l&r/ noun

Main Entry: trem·or 
Pronunciation: 'tre-m&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tremour terror, from Middle
French, from Latin tremor trembling, from tremere
Date: 1615
1 : a trembling or shaking usually from physical
weakness, emotional stress, or disease
2 : a quivering or vibratory motion; especially : a
discrete small movement following or preceding a major
seismic event
3 a : a feeling of uncertainty or insecurity b : a
cause of such a feeling

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   "'I'll let you know,' Oedipa said.  'I'll keep you
in mind.'  She left, wondering if she should've called
him something, or tried to hit him with any of a dozen
surplus, heavy, blunt objects in easy reach.  There
had been no witnesses.  Why hadn't she?
   "You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her
seat belt.  This is America, you live in it, you let
it happen.  Let it unfurl.  She drove savagely along
the freeway, hunting for Volkswagens.  By the time
she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian
settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was
only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach."
(Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)

Akin to Greek tremein, to tremble ...

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