Those M&D words: acufloral meditations

[Monte Davis]

> ' "How so?" Tenebrae coolly carrying on with her acufloral 
> Meditations. '
> 
> 'Acufloral' literally means 'that of a flower with needles', 
> hence rose. Is 
> it a Pynchonian way of saying 'rosy meditations', or 
> something else that I 
> don't get here?

I'd guess Brae is probably doing her needlepoint, working on some kind of
floral embroidery. Of course, considering the way Pynchon stutter-steps the
Philadelphia parlor as a narrative frame, the proof of that could be 50
pages away from this moment...