MDMD(5): Funny expressions.

[Jasper Fidget]

And of course:

"That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare bodkin?"
Hamlet 3:1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Panetta" <judy at firemist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: MDMD(5): Funny expressions.


> Bodkin...a hairpin, yes, but also: "a sharp slender instrument for making
> holes in cloth, a blunt needle with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon
> through a loop or hem."  She is embroidering after all.
>