More Against the Days
snappydresser
snappydresser at rogers.com
Sat Oct 21 02:34:25 CDT 2006
Frenesie is French for "frenzy".
Cheers,
YOPJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Broderick" <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: More Against the Days
> Ruud sez:
>
> I had always suspected th=
> at "Frenesi" was intended as a homonym for "free 'n easy", and that
> "Gates"=20=
> was being similarly employed for the german "geht es" (abbreviated
> "geht's",=
> roughly translated as "it goes").
>
> So I sez:
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> I always thought that Gates referred to the gates of a movie projector,
> but yeah, what you said sounds more than plausible, too...
>
> I also like the fact that Frenesi sounds a lot like frenetic.
>
> -Chris
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