MD3PAD 61-63

[David Casseres]

OK, I just re-parsed what Heikki wrote, and I see that it is "pantry.:

On 2/1/06, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 02/02/2006:
>
> > From your quotation, it seems to be "kitchen" rather than "pantry."
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> best
>
> > But regardless, it shoots down my reckless guesswork. Nicely done,
> > Heikki.
> >
> >
> > On 1/26/06, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, 'dispens' means 'pantry' in 18th cent South African Dutch -
> >> found this classification of household rooms:
> >>
> >> "In the eighteenth century it was customary for rooms to be named
> >> according to their position relative to the front entrance. So the
> >> first room behind the front door was usually named the voorhuis,
> >> then came rooms to left or right, sometimes called front rooms
> >> (voorkamers). There were rooms behind (agterkamers) and rooms to
> >> the side (zijkamers). There could be an internal room (binnekamer),
> >> or upper rooms (bokamers). Sometimes there was a large living room
> >> (grote kamer) and small rooms (kamertjes, klijne kamers). The only
> >> functional names were service rooms such as kitchen, pantry (dispens
> >> or bottelarij) and cellar."
> >>
> >> http://www.museums.org.za/vassa/extract2.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Heikki
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Vrooms are Dutch, and that's what *they* call it.
> >>>
> >>> best
> >>>
> >>> On 25/01/2006:
> >>>
> >>>> Sure, foreign language italics.  But dispens is not, to my knowlege,
> >>>> slang in any language to mean dispensory.  But it's not far off.
> >>>> But
> >>>> WHY (not necesarily a deep quest) is my question.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Dutch? Afrikaans?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Makes sense to me, but one wonders why Pynchon uses this word, in
> >>>>>> italics even.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Dispensary? Something like a storeroom or cupboard?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Cornelius keeps elephant guns nearby to defend the honor of his
> >>>>>>>> daughters. He keeps one in  "Dispens" out back? The word Dispens
> >>>>>>>> is in
> >>>>>>>> italics. What does it mean - outhouse?
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>