Misc. Pynchon associations

[Mark Kohut]

It seems that in linguistics, there is something called a 'preterite' ending:
 
"The preterite and participial ending "-ed" is sounded at times and slurred
at others by Shakespeare:
      "Which the dark night hath so discovered"....in which '-ered' has two
beats...............
                      -- from Harry Levin essay, example from Romeo and Juliet
 
And, "Dante's bitterest condemnation falls upon the slothful, "who were
never alive"....intro to The Portable Dante. 
 
Even more Misc.  Levin observes that jacobean drama is about disinherited
princes, whereas Elizabethan is about kings, their authority or loss of it...  
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