Father Raper

[pynchonoid]

Prickly bunch you are. I called rapier a French word,
and thaa's what it was before it came into English.  

<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rapier>

[French rapière, from Old French (espee) rapiere,
rapier (sword).}   Source: The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.


It seems to be another of Pynchon's puns, like Joaquin
Stick for Walking Stick, or the I Ching feet pun that
we discussed a while back.  




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