GR translation: habitual morning cup

[Alex Colter]

Also the morning cup (of coffee) is a product of (or help'd produce) the Age
of "Enlightenment". Before folks drank coffee they would start their day
with a water'd down form of beer, waking in something of a daze. T'is a
world in which the Company keeps Tabs, however, that such a Delicacies as
Coffee or Tea are allow'd to take hold..? Just my two-bits..

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:26 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Metaphorical. A still youthful Mr. Pynchon exhibits his insightful
> readings of office, lab, routine, or the political and personality
> conflicts of the jobplace. And, of course, here, the idea of the
> opposite, men whose ideas make them anti-men, foils, or antagonists,
> or in the Anatomy or M-Satire reading, cranks and professionals who
> not only represent a profession or idea, in this case Pavlovian,
> Statictician, but are invested, ironically, with literary tradtion, so
> Pointman is a Knight and Shakespearean Prince. The Sciences are
> mock-Religions or Cults; these men are priests.
>
> All in a cup of coffee?
>
> There is more in that cup than good to the last drop fill it to the
> brim with....one more cup of coffeee for I go....
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > P56.24-25  But he must go in, must face the habitual morning cup.
> >
> > What exactly is the "habitual morning cup"?  Is it a real cup of
> > tea/coffee?  Metaphorical?  Or something completely different?
> >
>
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