ATDTDA (17): "not about to suffer fools" (460.12)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Not dangerous, though definitely, a number of them illegal -- sociable enough, yet not about to suffer fools for any longer than they had to" (p. 460).

 
2nd Corinthians 11:16 - 21: 

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 

Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 

I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

http://www.kingjamesversionofthebible.com/47-secondcorinthians.html

 

Echoes of Scarsdale Vibe and Ray Ipsow back on p. 32:
 
Vibe chuckled soothingly.  "The Professor's afraid you're going to chase me off with radical talk like that.  But I am not that sensitive a soul, I am guided, as ever, by Second Corinthians." [...]

"Suffering fools is unavoidable," said Ray Ipsow, "but don't ask me to be 'glad' about it" (p. 32).

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115187&sort=date