MDDM Ch. 7 a few questions

[Dave Monroe]

This seems to have been covered (no puns where none
intended ...) already, but ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> I tend to think that the Jethro's Tent reference
> might be Biblical rather than bawdy, but maybe
> there's a folk proverb or idiom? Terrance? Anyway,
> thanks to all for your thoughts and info. Most
> helpful.

See not only, e.g., ...

http://www.bartleby.com/108/02/2.html

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus2.htm

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Bible/Exodus2.html

http://www.bju.edu/bible/exo/2.html

But also ...

http://www.bartleby.com/108/02/18.html

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus18.htm

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Bible/Exodus18.html

http://www.bju.edu/bible/exo/18.html

But whoever mentioned The Planet of the Babes (also,
of course, starring Charlton Heston) ...

http://www.granavenida.com/moises1/dm57.jpg

http://www.granavenida.com/moises1/dm59.jpg

By the way, note that Eduard Franz, who played Jethro
in the (second, every Easter Sunday) Cecil B. DeMille
film was born right here in M'waukee, 'Sconsin, on
Hallowe'en, 1902 ...

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Franz,+Eduard

Always something to be learned on The Pynchon List,
no?  Not necessarily about Pynchon, not necessarily
useful, but, well, back to ...

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