M&D - Chapter 19-21 - The Father

[Jerome Park]

Why that turn in the common phrase? So Pynchon writes that Mason "invested
Precious Sleep" and don't we expect that Mason *Lost* or *Wasted* or
*Spent* Precious *Time* and not that he Invested Precious Sleep. Mason did
not invest Time or Money. Time is money and money time. But Sleep is
Precious and is invested when one loses it, wastes it, spends it by not
sleeping. Hamlet would like this riddle. Had he, when a child who posed
questions about the World wasted his father's time/money? What good the
education the Father spent his time/money on if the Son can't explain the
the theft of days to the boys in the Pub?

The Theory of the Leisure Class

AND

What Money Wants.

http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21847



On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> There is a bit of role reversal at the bottom of page 191, betwixt Mason
> and his father.
> «He now began to quiz himself insomniac with this, wond’ring if his father
> had struggled thus with Mason’s own earlier questions about the World. He
> invested Precious Sleep in the Question, and saw not a Farthing’s Dividend"»
>
>
> > 30. mar. 2015 kl. 20.48 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>:
> >
> > This chapter is a real close up on Mason. From the shoe-buckle to
> internal dialogue and memories of his father.
> > On page 191 there are two hints that lead us to think Mason (regularly?)
> took a beating from his father, right?
> >
> > But Leather and Bone? Should it not’ve said Leather and Flesh?
> >
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