AtD 879.29....the trouble of caring
Bekah
Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 27 12:05:43 CDT 2008
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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