GR translation: standing in for the rest of the tip

[Mike Jing]

That's wonderfully detailed.  I guessed as much but could not find anything
to back it up so I couldn't be sure.  Thanks again, Monte.


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Tip: carny (traveling carnival) slang for the crowd on the midway, before
> they’ve been persuaded to buy tickets. The same argot as  “mark” (someone
> to be cheated) and “shill” (a carny confederate pretending to be just
> another face in  the tip)****
>
> ** **
>
> “..who may be” could be hanging from “Enzian,” “shill,” or “tip.” I favor
> the third:  i.e., Ombindi is selling something that the Hereros may not be
> buying, with Enzian – his affiliation uncertain – caught in between.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Mike Jing
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:20 PM
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> *Subject:* GR translation: standing in for the rest of the tip****
>
> ** **
>
> P325.6-19   But I’m S.O.S., yes well actually this goes on, verse after
> verse, for quite some time. In its complete version it represents a pretty
> fair renunciation of the things of the world. The trouble with it is that
> by Gödel’s Theorem there is bound to be some item around that one has
> omitted from the list, and such an item is not easy to think of off the top
> of one’s head, so that what one does most likely is go back over the whole
> thing, meantime correcting mistakes and inevitable repetitions, and putting
> in new items that will surely have occurred to one, and— well, it’s easy to
> see that the “suicide” of the title might have to be postponed indefinitely!
>           Conversations between Ombindi and Enzian these days are thus a
> series of commercial messages, with Enzian not so much mark as unwilling
> shill, standing in for the rest of the tip, who may be listening and maybe
> not.****
>
> What is the meaning of the word "tip" here?  And who is the "who" in "who
> may be listening and maybe not"?****
>
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