MDDM Ch. 52

[Dave Monroe]

Very good.  Ironically, convinced that all these
unusual elements (words, events, characters, what have
you) will ultimately prove to have their particular
sources, their particular intertextual vectors into
Pynchon's text, searched for "machicolations" in
Tristram Shandy instead.  Now I've got to find that
one in some likely source ...
 
--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 
> And Laurence Sterne of course always comes to mind
> when the topic is fortification:
> 
> Chapter 26 (or Book 2, Chap. 1)
> "I have begun a new book, on purpose that I might
> have room enough to explain the nature of the
> perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved,
> from the many discourses and interrogations about
> the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.
> I must remind the reader, in case he has read the
> history of King William's wars,-but if he has not,-I
> then inform him, that one of the most memorable
> attacks in that siege, was that which was made by
> the English and Dutch upon the point of the advanced
> counterscarp, between the gate of St. Nicolas,
> which inclosed the great sluice or water-stop, where
> the English were terribly exposed to the shot of the
> counter-guard and demi-bastion of St. Roch: The
> issue of which hot dispute, in three words, was
> this; That the Dutch lodged themselves upon the
> counter-guard,-and that the English made
> themselves masters of the covered-way before St.
> Nicolas-gate, notwithstanding the gallantry of the
> French officers, who exposed themselves upon the
> glacis sword in hand."
>
> http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/178/969/frameset.html

I mean, it's not likely that yr going to pick up words
like THAT on the playground, no?  Thanks again ...

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