ATDTDA (17): flapjack emporium (464.5)

[David Payne]

Pynchon's numerous flapjack jokes include Mason about to be squashed by a tub balanced overhead, first meeting Professor Voam:
 
The Professor has a Look-See, waving his Apparatus in mystickal tho' regular Curves at the Tub. "Fascinating. The Axis it's on is Magnetick. Good thing he didn't try to balanace this mechanicakallyl Whoo! you'd be flatter'n a Griddle-Cake." He is carefully adjusting this Grip upon the Rim.
 
"Excuse me,- to what End? Gazing at it, as it fries? saying, Oh, you're so Circular...your Airr-Bubbles, they're so intrriguing,-"



> From: dedalus204 at comcast.net> To: pynchon-l at waste.org> Subject: ATDTDA (17): flapjack emporium (464.5)> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 00:36:47 +0000> > "Around the middle of the third shift, Frank went for some breakfast at the flapjack emporium up the street ..." (p. 464).> > > Pynchon having some fun here with the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), methinks.> > [...] In North America, flapjack is another term for a thin pancake that is not only crispy, but slightly chewy as well. A largely defining attribute of a flapjack is its large diameter, commonly measuring 12" or more. [...]> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjack> > http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,flapjacks,FF.html> > > Emporium is a Latin term for a department store and for marketplaces or trading centers in ancient cities. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporium> > > And lookit what this MySpace dude is readin':> > http://tinyurl.com/yspds7> 
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