NP - Weed

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Thu Jun 29 17:08:05 CDT 2006


<< Would anyone familiar with The Confidence Man please tell me what "weed"
 refers to, in the context of that dude's hat..... >>

Charles,

I don't recall whether Melville is ever specific.  Guesses -- since he (not 
Melville) is demonic -- might lead to a weed in the garden of eden, or to 
Sotweed, which I think was parlance in (or prior to) Melville's time for tobacco, 
an addictive vice.

too bad you can't ask Jame Joyce.  He'd give have given you forty 
correspondences.



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