V-2nd--4: "the Jacobean etiology"

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> "Such was the (as it were) Jacobean etiology of Esther's eventual  
> trip to Cuba;
> which see"...p. 114, end of Chapter 4
>
> What a curious last line, no? Such a flat explanatory sum- 
> up.......as a wiki
> poster is always saying---(Mr. Ware hisself, if I remember rightly)-- 
> observes:
> the word etiology is usually used about the origins of an  
> illness.....[as P uses
> it in GR...'the etiology should be traced" or close...p.144 GR]
>
> And by this Jacobean etiology, --Jacobean meaning revenge play?----
> foreshadowing C of L49's Jacobean tragedy----P seems to be saying  
> this Nose Job
>
> head-fracturing rape...is what led Esther to have to go to Cuba for  
> her
> abortion......????
>
>
> Also reminding me, in embryo [sorry], of TRP's focus on revenge not  
> only in C of
> L49 but as generational revenge in GR
> as well as historical revenge in that novel....[Germany getting even  
> for
> reparations, inflation, etc.]
>
>
> Anyone, anyone?
  CIA/Torture subtext, if nothing else . . .

Jacobean's a codeword, see—like catsup.