Re: AtDtDA23: Right Back in the Ol' Caldo Tlalpeño

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/27/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I want to comment on something else here on page 637.
>
> Ewball Oust "who had shifted his interests from rural Anarchism to arms
> procurement".
>
> 1st) if we need an(other) example of how some Anarchism, some Anarchists are
> BAD SHIT, not exactly 'moral' in this satirist's vision, in this
> book, this oughta clinch it, yes?
>
> 2) Anarchism is capitalized in this use. I thought of Reification--- "To
> treat as though real that which is just an abstraction or a
> conceptualization. Sociologists since Durkheim have been accused of reifying
> ...
> bitbucket.icaap.org/dict.pl.................................."
>
> TRPs lifelong stylistic use of capitalization.   making Nouns of many
> things, so to speak.   And from at least V. on, TRPs focus on the
> animate--inanimate....a process like lower-case anarchy, so to distinguish,
> is animate.......when reified, it is Inanimate, so to speak..........
>
> Anybody like this distinction?

I find myself using Pynchonian capitalization in daily life, even.  I
usually assume there's some Significance involved ...