NP but tangentially. Measure for Measure

[David Morris]

I'd say in Pynchon's short story Siegel is a Prankster-King, and by
passing his mantle no praise is necessarily implied, because the
prankster isn't that kind of guy.  He's tired of fooling with that
Whole Sick Crew, and his passing the mantle to a stranger would be
more of a test than a compliment.  BTW, I think the short story is
juvenile dross.

David Morris

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But I think it fair to say if the phrase is 'not praise', the Duke is handing Angelo something like 'praise'---positive judgment of qualities?--- by anointing him the one in command to make such decisions in the Duke's stead, no?