AtD 212 spoiler

[Jordan Fink]

Reading that passage reminded me of our current rendition program.

there is also the use of the phrase "evildoer" through the book



Subject: Re: AtD 212 spoiler
Cc: P-list <pynchon-l@[omitted]>

Wow!  This is a perfect decription, not reading too much at all.

On 11/23/06, gp <wescac@[omitted]> 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.
>