VLVL(4) vocabulary

[Terrance]

Hello Mark, 

Just a carpenter, you know, ain't about to argue with a architect but I
can read a materials list and it says Cedar Shake, not shingle. Big
difference there.  And given that these are shakes and not shingles a
doper's idea of imbrication would be irregular enough to top over a
small truck. 

Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> One sense of the word in the ShorterOED indicates that the shingles may
> cover the camper shell in some sort of ornamental pattern rather than
> in the shaggy random rustic way I'd always imagined. Compare a doper's
> possibly obsessive patterning of the camper shingles to the doper's
> haircutting in the 'Byron the Bulb' passage in GR. Perhaps the shingle
> pattern was a diagonal, "handed" one, in which case it would slope up
> on one side and down on the opposite side. This would introduce a sort
> of spiralizing tendency to the aerodynamical trim characteristics of
> said vehicle (in addition to simple drag) contributing to the peculiar
> difficulties Zoyd experiences in cornering.
> Live and learn!
> Mark
> 
> --- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> > A neat word on p35: imbrication.  a regular overlapping of edges.
> > Pynchon uses this to describe the camper shell placed on top pf the
> > pickup truck he wqas driving.  The shell was covered with cedar
> > shingles.
> >
> > Toby
> >
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