ATD: Re: Re; AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[pynchonoid]

Thanks, Paul.  It's been awhile since we've had any
close reading of Pynchonian texts here, and you've got
the ball rolling now.

With a Slim Pickens twang, I hear it "A-ny got-damn
pin-kin-roller" (accents on pin and ro)" which would
tend to emphasize "pinkin" and could possibly
introduce yet a third variant on the pronunciation of
Pynchon's family name, as somebody suggested the other
day I think, and more to the point perhaps, emphasize
whatever it is that "pinkin" and "pinkinroller" are
supposed to represent.


"pin-chin" accent on pin
"pin-chawn" accent on chawn, as TRP said it on The
Simpsons
"pin-kin" in this text?  


--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> 	"I can fix that," offered Willis. 
> 	"Beg your pardon, what in hell business of any
> got-damn
> pinkinroller'd this be, again?"
> 	"I know how to loosen that up for you. Trust me,
> I'm an osteopath."
> 
> Willis himself is the "pinkinroller": here, Jimmy
> Drop is saying it's none
> of his business. Evidently, Willis has now put down
> the pistol he grasped
> "inexpertly" and is about to demonstrate his own
> area of expertise. The
> balance of power is shifting (as indicated by the
> final '"Obliged, Jimmy
> guessed'). Willis has nothing in his hands because
> his treatment of Jimmy's
> condition will be done with the hands: Jimmy's "just
> watch where you're
> putting them lilywhites" is a response to the
> approaching (and as he sees it
> threatening) hands, and makes less sense if Willis
> is holding anything in
> his hands.
> 
> One meaning of 'roller' is thief/pickpocket; again,
> a possible reference to
> the approaching hands. Jimmy translates what he sees
> into his own terms of
> reference (again, perhaps).
> 
> One meaning of 'to pink' is to peep/peer, possibly
> what Willis is doing as
> he "slowly and inexpertly raised his revolver,
> trying to aim it as straight
> as a shaking pair of hands would allow".
> 
> Hence, 'pinking roller'.
> 
> Again, perhaps.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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