The Introduction

[cfalbert]

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From: "Toby G Levy" <tobylevy at juno.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: NPPF: The Introduction


> 10. hoary forelock (21)

"Hoary" - grey or white with age....

forelock - think bangs, the follicle curtain above your brow.....

as in

"Seize Fortune by the forelock, for She is bald behind"

> 11. extramural (21)

literally  'outside the walls of'.......

> 13. Hogarthian (26)

In the manner of William Hogarth, english illustrator and social
commentator.........Hogarth chronicled the lives of the 'hoi polloi' in a
Breugelesque fashion....

love,
cfa