Question: "Congratulate this"

[Mark Kohut]

Almost can't wait---but then again, i can---to see Downey do this on screen.

(I am reading a Shakespeare play, Richard III if you must know, which is a kind
of actors' or director's version...on the facing pages it asks of different ways
to perform the actions---and gives how Olivier's and other versions have done 
it.
Take That, Folger Library, you Imagination-lacker)

it is a very interesting way to 'read' Shakespeare).............


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 10:51:45 AM
Subject: Re: Question: "Congratulate this"

I second----or third--this interpretation.

clear and succinct (from Dave M.)


----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 10:27:46 AM
Subject: Re: Question: "Congratulate this"

Dave's explanation is clearly the right interpretation.  Might also be 
translated as "Congratulate my ass" or "Congratulate my dick" to make it more 
explicit.

LK


-----Original Message-----
>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 21, 2011 10:11 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Question: "Congratulate this"
>
>A common expression in English, used as a movie title, Analyze This,
>but I am not sure this Monroe reading is correct. Minus the hand
>gesture, and depending on the context,  "this" might connote almost
>anything.
>
>2011/2/21 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/2/21 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> As always, the most simple is the most difficult. Please help. In IV,
>>> Ch Two, Bigfoot says to Doc that except for loads of cannabis debris
>>> in his car, he is clean. "No blood or impact evidence we can use.
>>> Congratulations." To which Doc answers nervously, "Congratulate this,
>>> Bigfoot". What is "this", what is the connotation"?
>>
>> ... as in, "congratulate THIS" [grabbing his crotch] and/or
>> "congratulate THIS" [shaking his fist] ...
>>