V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[alice wellintown]

> I think Laura already made this point, but on 338-9, he's got this to say:
> "But Fausto I was as bastardized as the others."
>
> [why bastardized?  I kept wondering - it just didn't sink in right
> away.  He is talking about language as if about a parent-relationship.
>  Well, mother tongue and all that, I guess.  Still, the unexpressed
> conflict that leaps out at me is that he consistently seems more
> excited by words than by people.  Probably not Pynchon's main thrust
> here, though, is it?]

Troglodytes is the word that interests me. A favorite word of Adams;
he uses it in The Education quite a bit and in his letters and in his
novels and so forth.

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