By the way that's a cute hat, and a smile so hard to resist...

[John BAILEY]

Pynchon has been great with food since at least GR, and M&D and AtD are
stuffed with edibles. I was thinking how nice it would be to make a list
of dishes in AtD and have a food week (probably more like a month) going
through them all. Though AtD is really curious when it comes to
vegetarianism - especially those last pages, and the repeated mentions
of cattle slaughterhouse horror in the first few chapters  - anyone?

As for clothing, I guess he just likes to paint a picture of the period.
His frequent juxtaposition of red/green outfits has always struck me as
deliberately tasteless or loud; since they're on opposite sides of the
colour wheel, combining the two is apparently very gaudy, according to
some old self-styled fashion maven I once knew. Same with orange/blue
and purple/yellow. I always associate these combos with hilarious 70s
mishaps.  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of kelber at mindspring.com
Sent: Saturday, 9 December 2006 7:27 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: By the way that's a cute hat, and a smile so hard to
resist...

Throughout the book, there's an unusual amount of detail paid to
clothing (cloth, color, style) and food (local delicacies, wine, beer).
No idea why.  Any takers?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>

>Anyone else noticed the hat motif? Particularly hats with feathers in
them? 
>Can't recall, have any of the feathers been magenta?
>
>I wonder if hats did actually feature in Krafft-Ebbing's studies?....
>
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