Back to AtD. Numbered days

[Prashant Kumar]

I would read that as saying that his days were literally numbered, by the
War Office bureaucracy.

On 11 July 2012 18:42, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> I read it as a mildly humorous intensifier: his days were numbered and
> [just in case you were wondering what range of number] few. But then, I
> grew up on too much S.J. Perelman.
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Kohut
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:22 PM
> *To:* pynchon -l
> *Subject:* Back to AtD. Numbered days
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> p. 935 Coombs had known since quite early on the job that his days with
> the War Office
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> were numbered and few.
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> Q: a Redundancy, a tidbit of lax writing? When one says one's days were
> 'numbered', isn't few
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> sorta implied?
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