LPPM MMV "This Little Jesuit Thing"

[Dave Monroe]

"This little Jesuit thing, this poltergeist, would
start kicking around inside his head just as it had
done with the briefcase, and call him back to the real
country where there were drinks to be mixed and bon
mots to be tossed out carelessly and maybe a drunk or
two to take care of. It was doing that now." (MMV, p.
5)


"This little Jesuit thing"

Cf. ...

"For this his roommate at college sophomore year had
called him Stephen and taunted him mercilessly about
the still small Jesuit voice which kept him from being
either kicked around or conscious of guilt or simply
ineffective like so many of the other Jewish boys on
campus seemed to Grossmann to be." (MMV, p. 1)

"quaint Jesuit arguments" (V., Ch. 1, p. 12)

"DEVIL'S ADVOCATE'S what the shingle sez, yes inside
is a Jesuit here to act in that capacity, here to
preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin,
against return." (GR, Pt. III, p. 539)

And in M&D ...

Jesuits
266; 287; 328; 377; 420; 432; 479; College, 514;
discovered by Blondelle, 519; Lesson I, 520; "a
Financial Entity" 528; "Visitants from beneath the
Ice" 531; 534; 543; 546; 601; physics, 604; 611; "five
and a Quarter Degrees [...] removed from the Chinese
Circle" 629; 687; 711; 772

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/j.html


poltergeist

Main Entry: pol·ter·geist 
Pronunciation: 'pOl-t&r-"gIst
Function: noun
Etymology: German, from poltern to knock + Geist
spirit
: a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be
responsible for unexplained noises (as rappings) 


bon mots

Main Entry: bon mot 
Pronunciation: bOn-'mO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural bons mots  /bOn-'mO(z)/; or
bon mots  /-'mO(z)/
Etymology: French, literally, good word
: a clever remark : WITTICISM

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary


		
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