NP but tangentially. Measure for Measure

[jochen stremmel]

I think, Mark, that's not a praise, and if there were place for a
bracket it should contain "shall". In effect the duke says: While I'm
not here you have the right to inflict the death penalty or show
mercy. Just like Siegel in P's short story.

Jochen

2010/12/17 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> the play from which Pynchon got a story title "Mortality and
> Mercy in Vienna [which] live in thy tongue and heart", said by the Duke as he
> deputizes Angelo,
> who will prove [in the sense of test] that praise.............also is praised
> for all his 'belongings"
> meaning 'qualities pertaining to'----Cf. Man Without Qualities---the earliest
> known substantive use with that meaning by centuries
> sez the OED!-------
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> And velvet is an overt motif in an early speech---"Thou art good velvet"---now
> Elvis Kitsch in Inherent Vice
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> A---and, there is this line regarding Grace: "Grace is grace despite of all
> controversy"  which ends "thou thyself
> art a wicked villain despite of all grace"...one says of another (not Angelo)
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