AtDtDA23: El Atildado

Mon Nov 26 14:32:49 CST 2007

Re: Chiapas (from wiki and wikipedia):
Chiapas remained one of the parts of Mexico least affected by change, with the descendants of the Spanish continuing to exercise much control over the native peoples through such institutions as debt peonage, despite attempts by the central government to abolish those practices.
In 1868 there was an armed native rebellion, led by the Tzotzil Maya as well as Tzeltal, Tojolabal, and Ch'ol; it almost succeeded in taking San Cristóbal, then the state capital, before it was suppressed by the Mexican army.
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Mark's overlay of misc. blather:
The deep poverty and 'exploitation" of this region goes very deep.....is/was a famous book from when Pynchon was young about this armed rebellion that I thought was called Revolution in the Badlands, but I cannot find it......

New book on Amazon about recent rebellion's first chapter is called The Right To Have Rights................which sure sounds to me like a
theme Pynchon would "like" (as we all would) and might use in his fiction......and of course does, I say obviously, uninsightfully.....

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From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:27:53 AM
Subject: AtDtDA23: El Atildado

  "One night eating supper down on Calle Rivera near the market, they
fell into conversation with a German traveler ..." (AtD, Pt. III, p.
637)

Calle Rivera

http://www.redcabbagepv.com/id4.html
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/puertovallarta/D40025.html

Chiapas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas

Chiapas is a poor and largely agricultural stat in the southeast of
Mexico. It is best known for its 1994 Zapatista movement.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_637

"a dueling scar on his right cheek, shaped like a tilde"

At the turn of the 20th century, the dueling scar (or bragging scar or
Renommierschmiss) was popularized by upper-class Austrians and Germans
who saw it as a mark of their class and of their honor, due to the
social importance of dueling societies at Austrian universities at the
time. If you were a doctor, lawyer, or professor, the dueling scar was
a tattoo that signified your inclusion in an elite social rank, and
visitors to university cafes would expect to see young men with
bandaged faces....

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Dueling_Scar

See, e.g., ...

McAleer, Kevin.  Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany.
  Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5548.html

Piccato, Pablo.  "Politics and the Technology of Honor:
  Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico."
  Journal of Social History 33.2 (1999): 331-354

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v033/33.2piccato.html

The tilde (~) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the
character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title
or superscription ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

"'El Atildado'"

atildado  adj
elegant, stylish

http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/atildado

verb
atildado
Past participle of atildar.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atildado

verb
atildar
to place a tilde over

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atildar

Spanish: the neat man. But it also suggests "the man marked with a
tilde" (see page 600). When reading this passage aloud, think about
how to stress the word "also" in "a gift Günther von Quassel had also
been blessed with."

(In mathematical notation, the tilde "~" means "approximately" or "is
proportional to," depending on country.)

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_637

N.B. "El Atildado" --> "A Dildo Tale"

Günther von Quassel

Gunter/Gunther, Günter/Günther

Old Germanic masc. name from OHG for "fight"+"army." The name appears
in the Nibelungenlied saga and has long remained a popular German name

http://german.about.com/library/blvornamen06.htm

Quassel

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/GM/12/Quassel.html
http://www.quasselbuch.de/quassel.htm
http://quassel-irc.org/

Quasselbude — "twaddling shop"; Nazi slang term given to the German parliament

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_the_Weimar_Republic

Bohnen
German: beans

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_638

Maragogype

This coffee varietal is a mutation of Typica coffee and was discovered
in Brazil.  The Maragogype coffee plant is large and is taller than
either Bourbon or Typica.  Production is low, but the seeds are very
large.  Maragogype adapts best between 2,000-2,500 feet.  The cup
characteristics are highly appreciated in certain coffee markets.

http://www.coffeeresearch.org/agriculture/varietals.htm

cafetalero

Perhaps as in pistolero; i.e. a barrista.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_638

cafetalero (Spanisch)

Substantiv, m
Silbentrennung: ca·fe·ta·le·ro Plural: ca·fe·ta·le·ros

Aussprache:

IPA: [kafetaˈlero], Plural: [kafetaˈleros]
Hörbeispiele: -
Bedeutungen:

[1] Kaffeepflanzer m

Übersetzungen
Deutsch: [1] Kaffeepflanzer → de

http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/cafetalero

Arbuckle's

http://arbucklecoffeetraders.com/legend.html
http://arbucklecoffee.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=ACR&Category_Code=AL

Synonymous here with "plain old, unfancified coffee"--perhaps a swipe
at 21st century coffee gourmets and at Starbucks. Another
paramorphic-mirror image of the early 21st century in the early
20th....

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_638

Starbuckles?

"'But--they put waxes [...] Resins from, from trees ...'" (p. 238)

United States Patent Office
John Arbuckle, JR., Allegheny City, Pennsylvania.
Letters Patent No. 73,486, dated January 21, 1868

Improvement in Roasted Coffee.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, John Arbuckle, Jr., of the city and county of
Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and
useful Improvement in "Roasted Coffee;" and I do hereby declare that
the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in roasting coffee and then
coating it with a glutinous or gelatinous matter, for the purpose of
retaining the aroma of the coffee, and also act as a clarifying-agent
when the ground coffee has been boiled in water.

[...]

I take any good article of green coffee, and roast it by any of the
known means. I then cool it as quickly as possible. I then prepare a
mixture of the following ingredients, in about the following
proportions: One ounce of Irish moss; half an ounce of isinglass; half
an ounce of gelatine; one ounce of white sugar; and twenty-four eggs.
I boil the Irish moss in a quart of water, and then strain it. I then
boil the isinglass and gelatine in a pint of water. I then mix the
sugar and eggs well together, and when the mixture of Irish moss,
isinglass, gelatine, and water has become cold, I mix the whole of the
ingredients into one homogenous compound. I then pour the whole over
about one hundred pounds of the roasted coffee, and stir and so
manipulate the coffee that each grain will be entirely coated, after
the coffee is coated, and the coasting has become dry and hard, which
is accomplished by forcing currents of air through it while stirring
it, for the purpose of coating it with the glutinous or gelatinous
matter described....

http://oldcoffeeroasters.com/arbuckle.htm

Coffee, Cowboys and a Ranch: The Arbuckle Brothers' Wyoming Connection

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/robertshistory/buffalo_bones_coffee.htm

  "'Been down that road,' said Ewball.  'Plantation life not what you
expected?'
  "Young Von Quassel allowed himself a chilly smile.  'It is exacty
what I expected.'" (p. 238)

Cf. V., Ch. 9, "Mondaugen's story," pp. 230-97?  See ...

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/mondstory.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=jqS2pmUIfOAC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248

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