AtDDtA23: Vaya con Dios, Pendejo

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A minor correction. "Vaya con Dios, Pendejo" actually means "Go with God, 
Pubic hair."

Ahh...the ability to be coarse in more than one language.

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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 8:27 PM
Subject: AtDDtA23: Vaya con Dios, Pendejo


> "'Fact of the matter,' Ewball growing gleeful with aggravation ..."
> (AtD, Pt. III, p. 643)
>
>
> "'these folks down here at least still have a chance--'"
>
> Cf., e.g., ...
>
> "Suppose the Slothropite heresy had had the time to consolidate and
> prosper? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and
> more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot? It seems to Tyrone Slothrop
> that there might be a route back ..." (GR, Pt. II, p. 556)
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html
>
> "Does Brittania, when she sleeps, dream?  Is America her dream? [...]
> serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes, for all that may
> yet be true." (M&D, Ch. 34, p. 345)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90546
>
>
> "--one that the norteamericanos lost long ago. For you-all, it's way
> too late anymore."
>
> Cf., e.g., ...
>
> "Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the
> singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" (GR, Pt. III, p. 556)
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3928/pns554.html
>
> "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it unfurl."
> (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58984
>
> "... how had it happened here, with chances once so good for
> diversity?" (Lot 49, Ch. 3, p. 181)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90546
>
> "... unshaped freedom being rationalized into movement only in
> straight lines and at right angles and a progressive reduction of
> choices, until the final turn through the final gate that led to the
> killing-floor."  (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 10)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114381
>
>
> Christers
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "... these little crosses, these red Christer pins, in their lapels
> ..."  (VL, Ch. 15, p. 339)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90705
>
> "'I'm like a damn Christer ...'" (AtD, Pt. II, p. 462)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0707&msg=120345
>
> "Jephthah runs this Christer road-ranch out on Cherry Creek ..." (AtD,
> Pt. III, p. 466)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0709&msg=121373
>
>
> frontera
>
> http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/frontera.html
>
>
> drygulched
>
> dry-gulch      /ˈdraɪˌgʌltʃ/
> –verb (used with object) Informal.
> 1. to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The
> riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
> 2. to betray by a sudden change of attitude or allegiance: The party
> dry-gulched its chief candidate at the convention.
> Also, drygulch.
>
> [Origin: 1865–70]
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dry%20gulch
>
>
> "oily as the Pánuco River on a busy day"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panuco_River
>
> "In 1910 the oil pools of Panuco and Topila were discovered in the
> basin of the Rio Panuco, near Tampico ..." (p. 48)
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=DvbGIbfYORoC
>
> Mauricio Magdaleno, Pánuco 137 (1933)
>
> http://207.249.4.14/bibdigital/cdteatro/autores%20del%20CD/Magdaleno%20Mauricio/panuco%20137.htm
>
>
> Krag-Jørgensens
>
> The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the
> Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late
> 19th century. It was adopted as a standard arm by Denmark, the United
> States and Norway....
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag-J%C3%B8rgensen
>
>
> "'Blam!  Blam!'"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "Hey, man, well, she's a total blam blam" --David Bowie, "Suffragette
> City" (1972)
>
> http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/ZS/SC.html
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_City
>
> And see as well, e.g., ...
>
> http://www.blam-blam.com/
>
>
> Juárez
>
> Ciudad Juárez, or simply Juárez, is a city in the Mexican state of
> Chihuahua. It stands on the Rio Grande across the border from El Paso,
> Texas. Juárez is the major port of entry and transportation center of
> north central Mexico.
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_643
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez
>
> http://www.juarez.gob.mx/
>
>
> "'Vaya con Dios, pendejo.'"
>
> Spanish: Go with God, asshole.
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_643
>
>
>
>
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