ATDTDA (14) references p 386 - not quite _that_ straightforward of a page

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

I guess what throws me is the way both Pynchon and
the artist reference on the web used "uninflected
walls" as if it were a common term.

Not that I expect to be familiar with even every common term -
learning new words like "scumble" is one of the reasons I
like to read Pynchon books.

(How's that song go?  "I like a Pynchon book, how 'bout you?")

Anyway, either my web searching skills have completely
deserted me, or it isn't that common a term.

So thanks, David, for elucidating.


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Mark Kohut [mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com]
  

    Fine subtle find........Cf. the carriage (and other?) rooms in M & D that are LARGER inside than from the outside???........are these "inflected"?
     
    Rooms....where humans are.....are larger inside.........!!!!  Deeply Thematic??
     


    David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

        inflect

        • verb 1 Grammar change or be changed by inflection. 2 vary the
        intonation or pitch of (the voice). 3 technical bend or deflect
        inwards.

        So uninflected walls would be flat, and in the case of the painters
        below, they would be somewhat uniform counterpoints to the natural
        forms of the orchards being painted.

        On 7/27/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
        >
        > high uninflected walls -
        > http://www.johnsheridanart.com/poorceza.htm
        > In the summer of 1870, it was decided that Cézanne would paint outdoors alongside Pissarro at Pontoise, and co-develop a motif. They chose to paint an orchard with the white and *uninflected walls* [asterisks mine] of various houses rising above and behind, as their composition