MDDM23: Croissant

[John Bailey]

What's the 'Bethlehem at Christmastide' remark mean?

Anyone?

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: MDDM23: Croissant
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:56:22 -0800 (PST)
>
>"'You could not find this even in Bethlehem at
>Christmastide.'  The object is a Croissant,-- 'a sort
>of ev'ryday Roll among the French, who put Butter in
>all they cook, Madam,' the worldly Mr. Edgewise
>instructs her,--" (M&D, Ch. 36, p. 268)
>
>Main Entry: crois·sant
>Pronunciation: kro-'sänt, kr&-; krwä-'sän
>Function: noun
>Inflected Form(s): plural croissants  /-'sänt(s),
>-'sän(z)/
>Etymology: French, literally, crescent, from Middle
>French creissant
>Date: 1899
>: a flaky rich crescent-shaped roll
>
>http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
>
>See, e.g. ...
>
>http://www.pastrychef.com/htmlpages/recipes/croissant.html
>
>http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/pastries/01/rec0174.html
>
>From Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
>(trans. Tom Conley, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
>1993), Ch. I, "The Fold," pp. 3-38 ...
>
>"The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an
>operative function, to a trait.  It endlessly produces
>folds.  It does not invent things: there are all kinds
>of folds coming from the East, Greek, Roman,
>Romanesque, Gothic, Classical folds....  Yet the
>Baroque trait twists and turns its folds, pushing them
>to infinity, fold over fold, one upon the other.  The
>Baroque fold unfurls all the way to infinity.[...]  A
>labyrinth is said, etymologically, to be multiple
>because it contains many folds.  The multiple is not
>only what has many parts but also what is folded in
>many ways." (p.3; unbracketed ellipses in text)
>
>Main Entry: mul·ti·ple
>Pronunciation: 'm&l-t&-p&l
>Function: adjective
>Etymology: French, from Latin multiplex, from multi- +
>-plex -fold -- more at -FOLD
>Date: 1647
>1 : consisting of, including, or involving more than
>one <multiple births>
>2 : MANY, MANIFOLD <multiple achievements> ...
>
>Main Entry: fold
>Function: noun
>Date: 13th century
>1 : a part doubled or laid over another part : PLEAT
>2 : something that is folded together or that enfolds
>3 a : a bend or flexure produced in rock by forces
>operative after the depositing or consolidation of the
>rock b chiefly British : an undulation in the
>landscape ...
>
>http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
>
>Pli selon pli ...
>
>http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/compositeurs/textes/c00000011/n00000295/
>
>Fold upon fold ...
>
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