COL49: lots of lots

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Is it time for the Pentecost yet?


love,
cfa

> Lots of "lots"
> 
> This is something that gets lost in the translation, which made me
> read P. in English:
> 
> Dic.:
> [1.] the whole number or quantity
> [2.] a lot of, a great amount of
> [3.] as an adverb: very much
> [4.] the making  of a selection or decision by methods depending on
> chance [5.] person's fortune or destiny [6.] item, sold at an auction
> sale [7.] collection of objects of the same kind [8.] plot of land
> 
> Title: "The Crying of lot 49" -- [6. auction]
> p. 9: "the lot on the pallid, roaring arterial" [8.]
> p. 9: "whatever it was about the lot that had stayed" [8.]
> p. 9: "who'd visited the lot once a week" [8.]
> p. 9: "the lot being a sponsor" []
> p. 9: "He had believed  too much in the lot []
> p. 15: "auto lots" -- [7. wasted cars]
> p. 16: "lot" -- [8. parking lot]
> p. 17: "watch (...) movies a lot" -- [2.]
> p. 29: "about to be broken up into lots" -- [7. collection]
> p. 34: "you could've bought lots in the heart of downtown LA" -- [8.]
> p. 48: "a lot of talk" -- [2.] p. 54: "parking lot" -- [8.] p. 100:
> "car lot" -- [7.] p. 103: "lot of 37 longs" -- [2.] p. 106: "might
> have looked at a lot versions" -- [2.] p.121: "as lot 49" -- [6.]
> p.121: "the lot" -- [7.] p. 121: "the lot in the auction catalogue" --
> [6.] p. 127: "to await the crying of lot 49" -- [6.]
> 
> The last words of the book are a repetition of it's title.
> 
> Otto
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