ATDTDA (7): 203-208 decoding

[Peter Petto]

204: Market Street - many towns have this street name; I'm presuming 
it means hitting the saloons, the meet market of the time

205: penumbra - because most light sources are multipoint, the shadow 
that any object casts has two parts: the perfect shadow (completely 
dark) portion is called the umbra; and the space of partial 
illumination between the perfect shadow and the full light (because 
of diffraction, there is no clear line of demarcation between any of 
these three, look closely) -- since Blackmun's decision in Roe v Wade 
where the decision was based on an implied right of privacy in 
earlier cases and law couched in this metaphor it has also come to 
mean a body of rights held to be guaranteed by implication in a civil 
consititution -- Clarence Thomas (taking an opposite view) has a sign 
in his office saying, "Please do not emanate in the penumbra."

206: C chord - the most basic, ordinary, plebian,  harmonic triad in 
Western/European music

207: remittance man - an exile living on money sent from home; 
Pynchon has a thing for these guys


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Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
Bay Village, OH