V.V. (11): non � vero

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks again.  Points well taken.  At work on next
post.  But maybe I oughtta get me some dinner ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> I found it in _Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and
> Fable_, a very handy little
> reference tome. Unfortunately the source isn't
> specified (an opera perhaps?)
> except as an "Italian saying". I like the
> translation of trovato as
> "invention" because it fits in with Benny thinking
> of himself as an
> "inanimate schlemihl" and also with the latter part
> of the sacred/profane
> dichotomy which he, by virtue of his name, embodies.
> I'm not sure if Mafia,
> or Pynchon, are playing around with it, but it does
> seem resonant.
> 
> On the Fergus as actor thing, I think Mafia is
> pretty much spot on there as
> well. I'm thinking of stand-ups like Jackie Gleason
> or Jerry Lewis or even
> Lenny Bruce (out of whom DeLillo got so much mileage
> in _Underworld_) who,
> like the Seinfelds of more recent times, made the
> crossover from performance
> artist to actor with some ease. The earlier
> description of Fergus might
> place him in the same league as some of those guys,
> if somewhat satirically
> (as with Slab, Mafia &c); what do you think?
> 
> best
> 
> 
> ----------
> >From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
> >
> 
> > but is this a
> > quote of some sort or merely an idiom?


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