Pynchon Pre-Birthday Bash a Regular Krupp Wingding

[Mark Kohut]

Dave,
   
  Brilliant commentary. I agree. (and said as much to laura.)
   
  mark

Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 5/3/08, Dave Monroe wrote:

> "There are many wonderful foods in Pynchon's work, starting with
> bananas and good coffee. perhaps," this unnamed writer chastises.
> "Mason & Dixon... is loaded with some interesting foods...What
> Slothrop vomits is a (light) comic riff on bad food in our fast-food
> overprocessed world. Honor Pynchon's life-embracing love of the right
> kind of food, if one is having a party for him, I say."
>
> http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/party_hopping/pynchon_prebirthday_bash_a_regular_krupp_wingding_83930.asp

"'Peace, Grandam,-- reclaim thy Ort. The Learned One has yet to sink
quite that low.' The Dog, with an expressive swing of his Head, makes
a dignified Exit, no more than one wag of the Tail per step." (M&D,
Ch. 3, p. 26)

Main Entry: ort
Pronunciation: 'ort
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Low German orte
Date: 15th century
: a morsel left at a meal : SCRAP

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

>From James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Ed. Christopher
Hibbert, New York: Penguin, 1979 [1791]), "Part IV: 1764-70," pp.
123-54 ...

"I told him that I had dined lately at [Samuel] Foote's. 'Pray, Sir,
is not Foote an infidel?' JOHNSON. 'I do not know, Sir, that the
fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a
dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the
subject.' BOSWELL. 'I suppose, Sir, he has thought superficially, and
seized the first notions which occured to his mind.' JOHNSON. 'hy
then, Sir, still he is like a dog, that snatches the piece next him.
Did you never observe that dogs have not the power of comparing? A
dog will take a small bit of meat as readily as a large, when both are
before him.'" (pp. 146-7)

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