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

[David Morris]

Basically "inflected" has to do with variation of certain qualities,
and something "uninflected" would have minimal variation.  I don't
think "uninflected walls" is common, but I did google other instances:

http://users.rcn.com/scrypt/07-CadaverScan.html

"The events of his dream shriveled until they became the objects which
now pressed against him like eidolons of safety overturned: the
bedding, the uninflected walls, the books piled chronologically from
nightstand to disaster. None of these could negate the cruelty of his
desire."

http://www.nysun.com/article/58137?page_no=2

"[Architect Richard Miers'] Uninflected white walls are dazzling, but
condo-buyers want windows and balconies that demand a very different
aesthetic."

On 8/1/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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>        • verb 1 Grammar change or be changed by inflection. 2 vary the
>        intonation or pitch of (the voice). 3 technical bend or deflect
>        inwards.
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>        So uninflected walls would be flat, and in the case of the painters
>        below, they would be somewhat uniform counterpoints to the natural
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>        > 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
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