atdtda 31: - pg 867

[Ya Sam]

867.16  "I must remember not to wear yellow."


cf. 

The letter orders him to wear yellow stockings, “go cross-gartered” (that is, to wear the straps of his stockings crossed around his knees), be sharp-tempered with Sir Toby, be rude to the servants, behave strangely, and smile all the time. Jubilantly, Malvolio vows to do all these things in order to show Olivia that he loves her in return.


http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/section6.rhtml





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To: pynchon-l at waste.org
From: bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Subject: atdtda 31: - pg 867
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:20:10 -0700


Some brief and general annotations for page 867




867.5    "Rogue elephant"

"a term for a lone, violently aggressive wild elephant, separated from the rest of the herd. It is a calque of the Sinhala term hora aliya. Its introduction to English has been attributed by the Oxford English Dictionary to Sir James Emerson Tennent, but this usage may have been pre-dated by William Sirr.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#Rogue_elephant




867.6 "Prince who again?" incuired Cyprian in some dismay.  "Surly not,  umpire?"


Not too sure what this means -  umpire = Empire?   or umpire  as in cricket  (is this cricket - is this right?)  Is he referring to someone as being an umpire? Is it a play on both meanings?




Cyprian is going to be sent to see Prince S.  He is reminded of a prior assignation with the guy arranged by Theign who is now on the hit list.  The prince is okay?




867.16  "I must remember not to wear yellow."

The Austrian Empire's flag was half yellow (top) and half black (bottom).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Empire

Cyprian in no way wants to be seen as allied with them or Theign -  not in Venice!

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891#Page_867



Buddhist connection - yellow symbolizes the earth (fwiw)




867. 24  valletto     valet, attendant.




867.25  heliotrope
A moderate, light, or brilliant violet to moderate or deep reddish purple.


http://www.colourlovers.com/color/DF73FF/heliotrope




867. 26  Facciam' il porco
 Literally, "we are doing the pig," (says the Prince to Cyprian) -  but meaning we are doing the sex pervert thing -  porco is Italian slang for sexual pervert.




867. 27 Il mio ragazzo è molto geloso
Italian: My little guy is very jealous.




867. 29 Qualsiasi, Ciprianino
Italian: Whatever you want (you want is implied), little Cyprian.


http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891#Page_867



867. 33 Symbolists

 In painting, Symbolism (as a style) was a continuation of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition... The Symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul, seeking evocative paintings that brought to mind a static world of silence. The symbols used in Symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references. More a philosophy than an actual style of art, the Symbolist painters influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau movement and Les Nabis. In their exploration of dreamlike subjects, symbolist painters are found across centuries and cultures, as they are still today; Bernard Delvaille has described René Matritte's surrealism as "Symbolism plus Freud.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts)#In_the_visual_arts


examples:   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Symbolist_paintings




867.34 - "The Iron Gateway"  Hunter Penthallow's Symbolist style artwork.   An "Iron Gateway" is quite different from some of the other gateways in this book,  many spiritual - another one coming up that's spiritual/material.  Not necessarily called gateways, though.




867.37  Carlo Zen furniture:


Furniture associated with Italy and Symbolist movement


http://www.arteliberty.it/arte_zen.html




867.Galileo Chini   Symbolist artist -


http://www.arteliberty.it/arte_chini.html (with several vases)




867.40 Bugatti  (Carlo) most famous for his furniture designs.  Very stylized "modern" type stuff - unique -  a reaction to the heavy baroque, rococo stuff.


http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/dsgn1/ho_1970.181.3.htm   (a desk - very Art Nouveau)


http://www.bugattipage.com/bcarlo.htm




Bekah








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