AtD 212 spoiler

[John Pendergast]

Nope, I thought the same thing. ("Chums of Chance and the Evil Halfwit" 
(something like that) also comes to mind.)

jp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: "gp" <wescac at gmail.com>
Cc: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: AtD 212 spoiler


> Wow!  This is a perfect decription, not reading too much at all.
>
> On 11/23/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "They all lived in fear of the Governor, forever to and fro in
>> Jeshimon and apt to arrive anywhere in town without warning.  What
>> impressed a first-time viewer was not any natural charisma, for he had
>> none, but rather a keen sense of something wrong in his appearance,
>> something pre-human int he face, the sloping forehead and clean-shaven
>> upper lip, which for any reason, or none, would start back into a
>> simian grin which was suppressed immediately, producing a kind of
>> dangerous smirk that often lingered for hours, and which, when
>> combined with his glistening stare, was enough to unnerve the boldest
>> of desperadoes.  Though he believed that the power that God had
>> allowed to find its way to him required a confident swagger, his gait
>> was neither earned nor, despite years of practice, authentic, having
>> progressed in fact little beyond an apelike trudge."
>>
>> *ahem*
>>
>> Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
>>