ATD SPOILER question re p 256

[Ya Sam]

The only reference to this Venetian word that I found:

"I do not want to give too exclusive an impression of Venetian industry, 
however, for now I remember the Venetian lasagnoni, whom I never saw doing 
any thing, and who certainly abound in respectable numbers.

The lasagnone is a loafer, as an Italian can be a loafer, without the 
admixture of ruffianism, which blemishes most loafers of northern race. He 
may be quite worthless, and even impertinent, but he cannot be a rowdy,— 
that pleasing blossom on the nose of our fast, high-fed, thick-blooded 
civilization. In Venice he must not be confounded with other loiterers at 
the caffè; not with the natty people who talk politics interminably over 
little cups of black coffee; not with those old habitués, who sit forever 
under the Procuratie, their hands folded upon the tops of their sticks, and 
staring at the ladies who pass with a curious steadfastness and knowing 
skepticism of gaze, not pleasing in the dim eyes of age; certainly, the last 
persons who bear any likeness to the lasagnone are the Germans, with their 
honest, heavy faces comically anglicized by leg-of-mutton whiskers. The 
truth is, the lasagnone does not flourish in the best caffè; he comes to 
perfection in cheaper resorts, for he is commonly not rich. "

Great book as well, worth reading, time permitting

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:1KjPuLNPX4sJ:isis.library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/pg-html/pg/etext04/8venl10.txt+lasagnoni+loafer&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1




>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: ATD SPOILER question re p 256
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:46:13 -0800 (PST)
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>lasagnoni?
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