AtD 254 Spoiler (?)

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Lot of this dang Irredentism going around
lately,' it seemed to Darby." (AtD, Pt. II, p. 254)


Cf. ...

"Rumor had it that a week or so later the lady V. ran
off with one Sgherraccio, a mad Irredentist.  At least
they both disappeared from Paris at the same time;
from Paris and as far as anyone on the Butte could
say, from the face of the earth."  (V., Ch. 14, Sec.
ii, p. 414)

"Irrendentist"

>From J. Kerry Grant, A Companion to V. (Athens: U of
Georgia P, 2001), on "Italia irredenta" (V., p. 242)
...

"Literally, 'Unreddemed Italy.'  The name of those
portions of Italian-speaking Europe under foreign rule
during the period 1861-1920 ('Irredentism,' Brewer's
Dictionary)....  Dugdale note the irony of the fact
that V. dies on Malta, 'victim of a mad extension of
Irredentism in which the isalnd was bombed to rubble
in an impossible attempt to regain it for Italy' ...."
(p. 124)

Citing John Dugdale, Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables
of Power (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990; London:
Macmillan, 1990), p. 111 ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56890

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54262

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54537

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