M&D p. 10: you know the sort of thing I mean

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And it's also reminiscent of the classic Jewish humor schtick, which relies on a set-up, followed by a deflection or downgrade:

Examples (heavily paraphrased):

Groucho Marx: Send flowers up to room 25, and write "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

Woody Allen: Throughout history, Man has had to struggle for food. And not only food - frequently, there had to be a beverage.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 14, 2015 3:18 PM
>To: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>Cc: Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>, "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: M&D p. 10: you know the sort of thing I mean
>
>To Be or Not to Be, sort of thing.
>
>In trying to find a literary, linguistic term that might describe this I
>find the label 'extension--contrast' in one online text exposition
>
>but I also find inexact musical analogies, diminuendo and my favorite, from
>jazz----de-crescendo....
>
>With his ..'and so forth' these have always made me think Southern
>California, hippie times in inspiration.
>
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
><thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Am 14.01.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Monte Davis:
>>>
>>> "
>>> One of those moments Hindoos and
>>> Chinamen are ever said to be having, entire loss of Self, perfect union
>>> with All, sort of thing.
>>
>>
>> Wonderful. I seem to remember that during the first group read of M&D we
>> termed this technique "deflation."
>>
>>> "(...)flammivomous peaks everywhere sort of thing. . .
>>> ." (AtD 407)
>>
>>
>> Somehow reminds me of:
>>
>> "(...) No, this my hand will rather
>> The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
>> Making the green one red."
>>
>> Macbeth, II, ii
>>
>>
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