Back to AtD. Numbered days

[Mark Kohut]

Nice and it has a nice rhythm.....have always like the construction myself....
 
 

From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: 'Mark Kohut' <markekohut at yahoo.com>; 'pynchon -l' <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:42 AM
Subject: RE: Back to AtD. Numbered days


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.
 
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
 
p. 935 Coombs had known since quite early on the job that his days with the War Office 
were numbered and few. 
 
Q: a Redundancy, a tidbit of lax writing? When one says one's days were 'numbered', isn't few
sorta implied?
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