MDDM Ch. 13 Stars and Planets: Uranus

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 11 02:16:37 CST 2001


And, of course, in the name of increasing the peace, I
will not note ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> I note that Pynchon, being an adult, was able to
> refrain from gratuitously using the new planet's
> eventual name (Uranus) to make the obvious smutty
> insult ...

Of course, though, as any exasperated grade school
(and up) science teacher will be at pains to tell you,
technically, it's pronounced YOUR-uh-nus.  But Pynchon
hardly refrans from smut, insult, obvious, gratuitous,
immature, or otherwise ...

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