AtD 879.29....the trouble of caring

[Bekah]

The prince is a true child of the Doges.  Cyprian even calls him  
"Altezza"  -  your majesty.  (p. 872.35)     Having to murder someone  
in the exalted realms of the Doges may be but an "inconvenience."     
It certainly sets a scene for the brutality coming up.

And generally I agree about Pynchon as poet in that the words may be  
coming from inside somewhere - perhaps not EVERY word but a whole lot  
of them.

Bekah

On Apr 27, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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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