Against the Day - page 255 - Mansueto

Doc Sportello coolwithdoc at gmail.com
Sat May 3 11:45:54 CDT 2014


Weird, my kindle copy has "Manveto" writ instead of "Mansueto." I'll have
to check with my physical copy at home. I dunno, carpaccio is raw meat,
maybe mansueto is man-suet, a strange pun.
On May 3, 2014 8:46 AM, "Michel" <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> AtD, page 255:
> "Pugnax arrived in the company of Mostruccio, a small, ill-humored
> Venetian dog, with an ancestral resemblance to those observed in works of
> Carpaccio, Mansueto, [...]
>
> Atd Wiki does not offer more on this Mansueto. Maybe is a fictitious
> artist? Could it be a pun of some sort? Anyone an idea?
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> Michel.
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