MD3PAD 103-105

[Toby G Levy]

        Aunt Euphrenia comes into the room carrying an Oboe and sheet
music, requesting that they be more quiet. She proceeds to carve a reed
out of a piece of cane which she claims to have gotten from a Turkish
Sultan.

        As Wicks resumes his tale, Euphrenia "punctuates" Wicks' story
with "scraps of Ditters Von Dittersdorf..." This was an actual Viennese
composer of the 18th century. He did write comic opera but I could not
verify the existence of  the one Pynchon mentions: "I Gluttoni."

        Chapter 11 begins on page 105, remaining in the LeSparks family
room with Euphrenia remarking on the delights of the island of St.
Helena.

        Wicks remarks that he and the astronomers parted company when
they sailed, with Wicks sailing to India. He regrets not being on the
island to witness Mason and Dixon's interface with Maskelyne, who later
became the Royal Astronomer.

        Uncle Lomax gives Wicks some more brandy and outside it begins
to rain.

        Uncle Ives wonders how Wicks can continue the tale if he was not
on St. Helena.

Toby