AtD Chapter 26, Section 2, p. 322: Canonical Eli

Michel bulb at vheissu.net
Thu Jun 5 03:53:42 CDT 2014


Thanks Monte (and Mark and David), really appreciated!

Michel.

Monte:
> Elihu Yale founded the school which was renamed in his honor, so its 
> students were nicknamed "Elis." The campus favorite "Whiffenpoof Song" 
> (http://ingeb.org/songs/fromthet.html) mentions both "Mory's" 
> (Moriarty's) and "the place where Louie [Lassen] dwells" as favored 
> hangouts, i.e. "canonical Eli venues."
>
> I read the quoted sentence as "Kit wasn't in the mood for the usual 
> places."
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net 
> <mailto:bulb at vheissu.net>> wrote:
>
>     "Canonical Eli venues were not the ticket today"
>
>     Kit wanders through the New Haven night after he hears from Lake
>     that his dad has been killed. Moriarty's is mentioned, then Louis
>     Lassen's and finally Canonical Eve.  Anyone an idea what this
>     Canonical Eli venue is?
>
>     Thanks!
>     Michel.
>     -
>     Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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