M&D pollicate

[Michael Bailey]

oh yeah, Pollix is thumb (darn, I liked having a single word to
indicate "pointing with the head" other than nodding, coz sometimes
you move your head to draw somebody's eyes at something, and that
doesn't seem like nodding to me)

On 1/13/06, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 14/01/2006:
>
> >>  "Ethelmer smiles and amiably pollicates the Revd..." (30) Is Pynchon
> >> saying that Ethelmer shows a "lack of spine" here?
> >
> > Doubt it. From the context it seems to mean something along the lines
> > of mollify or placate.
>
> And he does so, or attempts to, by offering both uncles a smiling
> thumbs up:
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&keywords=pollicate&page=1
>
> Always worth a look in the p-list archives to take advantage of the
> summaries and notes from the two previous group reads.
>
> best
>
>


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