VLVL2 (15): crazy eights

[Dave Monroe]

Oh, and, e.g., ...

"Shekhinah, bride, queen, daughter. And mother.
Motherly as sheltering mud and glowing pitchblende"
(GR, Pt. II, p. 479)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/mothers.html

--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    "'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)


	
		
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