AtDTdA: (9) 262-265

Wed May 23 14:57:25 CDT 2007

Two partial answers to your questions.....I do not know why, human motivationally, Lake marries Deuce.  (a seaman deuce--V.--by the way is a seaman apprentice, so a Deuce Kindred is....pretty clear).   I do think, however, it is Pynchon's way of saying: Webb and his killers are kindred.....Webb, too, was a killer, as we know.

  Having them join the bloodlines is almost too heavy a way to make the point.

  Non-Chums sections are not a boy's adventure fiction, another daylit fiction.....
  The non-Chums sections are.........pointedly.....to be reality.

  MK

  You gathered great bits here with great questions.

Jasper <jasper.fidget at gmail.com> wrote:
  262-265 Deuce and Lake Get Hitched (continued)

Page 262
celluloid-collar ads
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/collarads.htm 

Go ahead and buy one:
http://www.riverjunction.com/catalog/mensfurn/collars.html 

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"the way his face that morning, even with the smoke in the room, had 
slowly emerged into clarity?"

Compare to p. 240 where Renfrew's face slowly becomes distinct. Maybe P 
just likes this kind of image.

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Willis Turnstone
Turnstone turns up on p. 307; his arrival is described starting p. 309 
(which was the Amazon excerpt before the book was released)
A turnstone is a bird:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_Turnstone 

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cocksure
adjective: presumptuously or arrogantly confident
 DERIVATIVES cocksureness noun.
 ORIGIN from archaic cock (a euphemism for God) + SURE; later 
associated with COCK.
[Compact Oxford English Dictionary]

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"by something /outside them/"
Destiny? see also p 261

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"there wasn't one [woman] didn't secretly love a killer"
Now ladies, is this accurate?

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Page 263
"a mighty desirable length of calico"
Calico Cal"i*co, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first
imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives
distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super
calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
[Eng.]
[1913 Webster]

2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
[1913 Webster]

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"what about when we're old?"
"Unless we could beat it. Never get old."
To what extent are we to connect the non-Chums sections with the Chums? 
This anyway seems to connect. Oh right, "everything connects". Forgot 
about that.

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"Crazier."
Cf Bonnie and Clyde.
*wiki*

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Oleander Prudge
A name that brings joy to the heart of any Dickensian who happens to be 
reading along.
*wiki*

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"Some would've said she knew even then what he'd done. Could not have 
helped knowing, God sakes."

Today's superlative essay question:
Why then? Explain it to me and the hoards of onlookers. If she at least 
suspected, probably knew, then why marry Deuce? Why Lake&Deuce, why? See 
also p. 266: What are the motivations of each in marrying the other?

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Page 264
single-jacker
A miner who with a hammer and spike cuts a hole into rock for placement 
of a stick of dynamite. A set of holes are cut for each "synchronized" 
blast. (Double jackers work as a team.) Infer (this) one as a loner, a 
bit crazy, single minded, silent, easily hurt or misunderstood, doesn't 
play well with others...
*wiki*

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Page 265
tintypes of all the kids
A tintype (also called a ferotype or melainotype) is a photograph made 
on a sheet of iron (not really tin) instead of on paper.
http://www.grandmemories.com/Restorations.htm 

Here's some tintypes of kids:
http://www.nlg.dk/tintypes/kids.html 

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shirtwaist
A woman's blouse or bodice styled like a tailored shirt.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shirtwaist 

A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist_(clothing 
)

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"And she was gone, and Lake sat there with her legs trembling but not a 
thought in her head, and didn't go after her, and [...] she didn't ever 
see her mother again."

This is the scene where Mayva leaves her home because her daughter is in 
it. Any thoughts?

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"backing away down the valley"
It's instructive to look at a satellite photo of Telluride. You could 
very well lay a single track from the mouth of the valley up to the 
town, but no farther. So the train drives into the station, then backs 
out until there's room for a spur where it can turn around.
*wiki*

Photos of Telluride valley (between 1892 and 1905):
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000158+X-158 

http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10062352+X-62352 

See here for that recommended satellite photo (although with Google 
Earth you can see the terrain):
http://tinyurl.com/2wq6oz [google maps]

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runninmate
Aside from political candidate, the word can mean simply "A companion". 
Also "A horse used to set the pace in a race for another horse."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/running+mate 

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gullet of days
???
*wiki*
[sic]

I'll try: how about time?

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