NPPF - Canto Two Shade's maths

[Otto]

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From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: NPPF - Canto Two Shade's maths


> > <<"We have been married forty years. At least
> > Four thousand times your pillow has been creased
> > By our two heads..."
>
> I read this as, "In forty years we made love at least 4,000 times."
>
> The other times his head was on his own pillow.
>

If my memory serves me well in Japanese "to share the pillow" means making
love (Shogun).

Otto