queries inherent vice

[grladams at teleport.com]

And the use of question marks? At the end of statements? Especially by
women? This is because on the west coast? Many inflect a sentence so that
it always sounds like a question.

Original Message:
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From: David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:20:36 -0600
To: aleistra at home.nl, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: queries inherent vice


"Anymore" is an adverb meaning "nowadays" or "any longer".  It's use
in IV is, I think, a sort of LA dialect.  Pynchon seems to like to
have his characters speak in a particular local or period dialect.
That's something that will probably not be possible to convey in a
translation.

David Morris

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Auke Leistra <aleistra at home.nl> wrote:
> three - p38: 'one more west coast tradition down the toilet along with
three
> percent product anymore'. 'along with three percent product anymore'?
what can this (she) possibly mean?

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