Atdtda[4] 100.22 If I may elucidate part 1

[Michel]

A quote from Pynchon's Introduction to Farina's novel, Penguin, 1996, p.xii

"He was in fact dismayingly succesful with the wolf story, which he was 
using then mainly to hustle coeds, often those on whom one had sort of 
had one's eye.  Most of them, as I recall, went for it.  Each time he 
told it, of course, he rewrote, so it got better and better."

Same goes for Fowley Walker's story, cfr:

"Foley once again was obliged to tell his Civil War Substitute story, a 
chore growing, with the years, ever more wearying." (100.22-23)

Before diving into more detail into this story, I'd like to refer to the 
pynchonwiki for Minie ball, substitute and the like.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_97-118
Also:
- 100.37: Reb bullet: ?
- 100.22-23: "Substitute" -- common practice at the time for richer 
people to find a substitute to go the army in their's son stead (in 
Belgium, e.g. it existed until 1909)
- 102.11: "Monmouth Park" is a racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, I 
assume to gamble
- 102.11: "Sheepshead Bay" in Brooklyn, for fishing? -seems unlikely.

Michel.







	

	
		
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