VLVL2 (15): crazy eights

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Dimple check!' her grandmother called.  Prairie
had to ask her to wait until the Mother situation had
been resolved, finally risking an eight and calling
spades, whereupon at last She emerged, looking mean as
ever and obliging Uncle P. to draw five more cards,
which, valiantly though he played on, proved to be one
card too many." (VL, Ch. 15, p. 367)

"Mother of Doom"

Not only ...

p. 367 "the Mother situation"    Nice cinematic touch,
superimposing Frenesi and the Mother of Doom (the
spade queen).

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

But also ...

But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in,
And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,
Then is the day of crumbling not far off. 

--Sir William Watson, The Mother of Doom

http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Work/3/

See also ...

http://www.bartleby.com/100/661.html

http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautwatson2williamx001.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/000802f.htm

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Poetry/OxfordEnglishVerse/obev273.html

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/watson01.html

"Dimple check," on the other hand, I'm reading as a
grandmotherly attempt at cheek-pinching, but ...

--- dedalus204 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> I haven't been able to locate anything regarding the
> terms "Mother of Doom" (seemingly a gaming term
> here, but certainly relevant to the Frenesi
> situation as well) or "dimple-check."  Anyone?


	
		
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