IVIV "Or I guess YOUR mother, because you'd be me.." p. 26

[Mark Kohut]

And here we have the clearest expressed, seemingly accented, connection 
between Doc and Bigfoot..."you'd be me"...and "almost in the same business" "except I don't get that free pass to shoot people all the time
and so forth."

Compare and contrast. 

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: IVIV "Or I guess YOUR mother, because you'd be me.." p. 26
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:16 PM
> Yo mama insulting within 'playing the
> dozens"....see Wikipedia for more (although the articles
> could be better, thinks this white guy)
> 
> From the African-American vernacular tradition, we know..
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> "that it is a modern survival of an English verb—"to
> dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and
> meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible,
> torpid, powerless." The object of the game is to stupefy and
> daze with swift and skillful speech.[citation needed]"
> 
> A...and Franz Ferdinand memorably plays the dozens in AtD
> in Chicago. 
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