MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions

[Scott Badger]

John:
> >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?

I wasn't very clear with my question, but you went ahead and answered it
anyhow with the quote...I meant, does "toilette" here suggest that he isn't
a real German mystic, only made up so? Perhaps that spy for the Paxtons that
M&D thought Jabez might be?...

Scott Badger