pentimento: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

Arrepentimiento
Spanish: n. repentance, penitence, contrition--all concepts important
to Inherent Vice.

There's also a cool trilingual pun here: "pentimento" (now an English
word, but from the Italian for 'repent') refers to an image in a
painting that was painted over but then, with time, begins to show
through the top layer of represented images. Lots of ways to connect
this multi-level word to the plot and themes of Inherent Vice.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_62

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> pentimento
>
> Painting. the presence oremergence of earlier images,forms, or strokes
> that havebeen changed and painted over.
>
> [...]
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/2015/06/10/pentimento
>
> arrepentimiento
>
> sm
>
> 1    (=pesar)   regret,   (Rel)   repentance
> [+de terrorista etc]   reformation
> 2      (Arte)   (=enmienda)   change   (made by the artist to a picture)
>
> http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/arrepentimiento
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