MDDM Ch. 58 Young Nathe

[John Bailey]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:24:29 +1100

Nathe
>falls for a maid who he names "Galactica" (465.15), which struck me as
>unusual.

It's a joke, I suppose, which perhaps an astronomer might get without 
looking it up. 'Via Galactica' (The Road Made of Milk) was the ancient Roman 
name for what we now know as the Milky Way. Galactica, I'm thinking, would 
therefore mean 'made of milk', which is in itself a pun (maid of milk) as 
well as allowing yet another astonomer's joke into the mix.

>Not having had the opportunity to read much Proust yet, are there other
>similarities (stylistic, thematic etc) between his work and Pynchon's? 
>Which
>English translation/edition would you recommend?
>

I'd be interested to know the same, not having really gotten into Proust 
yet, either.

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