VV(11): Winsome

[Dave Monroe]

"Gouverneur" - "r" = "Gouveneur."  "R" gone ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com> wrote:

> It's not much mentioned past Winsome's entrance @
> V., Ch. 5, Sec. ii, p. 
> 123, but note that "Roony" is actually a nickname. 
> His given name is 
> "Gouverneur," perhaps not unusual for a
> "Southroner," but this is Pynchon 
> we're reading here, so, borrowing a trick from
> Charles Hollander, we 
> activate/conjure/whatever the ol' "Magic Eye," and
> ...
> 
> And where I thought I'd certainly come up with
> Gouverneur Morris--reluctant 
> Revolutionary, father of the decimal monetary
> system, nigh unto author of 
> the U.S. Constitution, Federalist, chairman in
> charge of construction of the 
> Erie Canal--
> 
>
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,55167+1+53814,00.html?query=morris%20gouverneur
> 
> ---I instead first hit one David Gouveneur
> Barnet--liberator of Venezuela, 
> first president of the Republic of Texas--instead. 
> See ...
> 
> http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/burnetdg.htm
> 
> Of course, I'd misspelled "Gouverneur," but, in
> light of the Davy Crockett 
> reference to come, close is at least as good in
> allusion as it is in 
> horseshoes and hand grenades.  But what to do with
> this, er, happy accident 
> (what's the word I'm looking for here, it's driving
> me nuts)?  Is there a 
> 
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