Pynchon's S's & Q's

[Steven Koteff]

His sense of silliness and slapstick does feed the language. To me there is some sort of Looney Tunes humor-logic embedded in those names in particular, and the sound you mention. In 'absquatulate' I hear a funny sort of cadence that sounds like the same voice as what said, "the frying of latke 49."

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rocco Squarcioni is in Low--Lands. Francesco Squalidozzi--"old squalidozzi, ploughman of the deep"--is in GR.....Another similar Italian is in AtD, correct? 
> 
> As is the word, used in the promotion for AtD..."absquatulate" 
> 
> Think Pynchon just loves the squish + shwa sound of sq? 
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