AtD 879.29....the trouble of caring

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah:
  872.29 -  "the Prince said, with a smile whose bleakness had more to  
do with inconvenience than regret."
*       the word  "inconvenience" stands out but is probably  
happenstance,  not meaningfully related to the Chums
   
  Or, inevitably feels this reader who thinks, perhaps delusionally, that every word in Pynchon was chosen like a poet's.......it might....
   
  An unusual phrase...............a bleak smile (of) inconvenience not regret....
  inconvenience in AtD---and elsewhere in TRPs work (see M & D)--refers to 
  the trouble of caring, as it were...........applies to the Chums' ship.............
  apply here........................
   
  The Prince is halfway to being a decent guy-----but he feels no active regret but only 'inconvenience?????



       
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