MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions

[John Bailey]

>From: "Scott Badger" <lupine at ncia.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:11:41 -0500
>
>
>343.30 'Oily Leon'  ??

Leon Jimenes is a line of cigars, the company dating back six generations, 
but I don't know an exact timeline. Described in Cigar of the Month with "a 
toothy, oily, rich Cameroon wrapper that begs you to light it". So, maybe an 
oily Leon? Maybe not. I'm not the cigar sort.
>
>344.19 'German of Mystickal Toilette'  Does "toilette" suggest, made up to
>look like?...

More Germans. I'd take toilette in this instance to mean grooming, 
costume...
[Truth] needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and 
counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of 
Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech 
nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of 
Government." P.350.

It's really an eloquent description of Pynchon's writing style, isn't it?


>345.33 'Gastrick Speech'  ??
>
A burp? the rumblings of the belly? or talk of food, there's plenty of that 
in M&D.


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