M&D - Chapter 19-21 - The Father

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Brilliant point.

> 4. apr. 2015 kl. 02.36 skrev Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>:
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> 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? 
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> The Theory of the Leisure Class 
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> AND
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> What Money Wants. 
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> http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21847 <http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21847>
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com <mailto: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"»
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> > 30. mar. 2015 kl. 20.48 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com <mailto:eromberg at mac.com>>:
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> > 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?
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> > But Leather and Bone? Should it not’ve said Leather and Flesh?
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