Misc. Pynchon associations

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/14/2012 7:32 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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

Has anyone but Pynchon ever used the word in reference to the non-elect, 
the passed over, to those subject to Preterition?  Don't remember seeing it.

preteritive,  yes.

P

> 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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