pinkinroller soliloquy

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com]

> Someone just pointed out to me that someone pointed
> this out to him: "pinkin'," "Pynchon" ...
> 

from the Modern Word site "In the mysts of the historical past, Pinco de Normandie didst cross the briny mare with William. Angleterre was their goal."
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html (very enjoyable article btw)

"pinked" in old duel descriptions connotes to me "drawing blood but not copiously" so as to turn one's clothing pink (rather than bright red) 

so "pinking" meaning "small cut" could be planted (crossfiled) near "roller" in a Bruno-of-Nolan memory garden, sprouting images of tractor feeds on printers, the cap guns we used as kids to have with perforated rolls of caps for playing Army (as opposed to "stick-em" caps which were fun to leave stuck to a hard floor, but I digress), and the neat leatherworking tool referred to in the preview passage 

notionally just as accurate as my etymology probably is a surmise that the passage commended itself for excerption for this reason, and that "this is the way [Pynchon] rolls" with disarming adjustments even for dangerous men...


> --- the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
> pinkinroller'd
> 
> And recall ...
> 
> Main Entry: pinking shears
> Function: noun plural
> : shears with a saw-toothed inner edge on the blades
> for making a zigzag cut
> 
> Main Entry: pink
> Function: transitive verb
> Etymology: Middle English, to thrust
> 1 a : to perforate in an ornamental pattern b : to cut
> a saw-toothed edge on
> 2 a : PIERCE, STAB b : to wound by irony, criticism,
> or ridicule
> 


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