AtD (37) p.1059 "wide-awake hat", Virgil?, "it had not happened yet"

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> P 1058
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> "wide-brim black hat"...these 'wide-awake hats' always strike me as resting on the hats of the generally enlightened---or that guy in Big Lebowski....Virgil is linked with the ancient wise-man personage of the hermit Tarot card.....
>
> Virgil is Jardine's father. is the Aeneid relevant here?

First off, cf ...

"a broad-brim hat" (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 789)

wideawake hat

AKA "Quaker Hat" - worn between @1720 - 1817; Victoria Wren's uncle
from Australia with wideawake hat, 72; "God wore a wideawake hat" 73;
the Gaucho in, 161; "a drunken soldier in a wideawake hat who carried
a Mauser" 262

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/w.html
http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W

73/72 - God wore a wideawake hat

A Wideawake Hat is a men's hat resembling those worn by the Quakers
that settled parts of the United States. They are usually made from
black or brown felt and have a fairly wide brim that is upturned
slightly (maybe 15 degrees) from the base of the hat on the left and
right sides, while being pretty flat on the front and back with a
fairly blunt top (as opposed to the well rounded top of a bowler).
Usually there is also a fairly tall black hatband around the base,
just above the brim.

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3

"Access from the street was by way of a Dutch door, whose open top
half, that long-ago evening, had come to frame Hector under a ragged
leather hat with a wide brim ..." (VL, Ch. 3, p. 22)

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84184

And, in general, on "Headwear in ATD," see, e.g., ...

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115357
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115435
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115440
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115459
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0702&msg=115489

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0803&msg=125270