BtZ42 Sec 3, p 17

[Monte Davis]

8:20 not flagged in Weisenburger 2ed, but more generally "twenty minutes
after the hour":

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/silence.asp

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> "(8:20 and other mythical hours)"......not in 1st edition of Weisenburger,
> don't know about 2nd...BUT
>
> When I was a young tyke, looking thru Sears and a few other catalogs
> of America's time of my time, I noticed that all of the wristwatch ads had
> the hands set at
> 20 minutes after eight...visualize, long hand at 120 degrees pointing down,
> hour hand at 240 degrees---a visually nicely "balanced" inverted kinda V,
> one shortened side arc (as P describes those street lamps early in V.--)
> and I asked my dad--who knew everything important, of course---why that was
> and he is always saying that the ad folks decided this was the most
> visually pleasing
> way to look at a watch face---imagine 5 after 12 or 6
> thirty!!---so............
>
> that mythical time, easiest on the eyes, created by ad writers.
> McLuhanesque part of
> P's vision, maybe.
> (10:10 was another time used for same reason)
>
> As at least two Plisters have said here and posted about
> , P subverts mythic myths, so to be cute --and
>  with huge achievements, thereby creates new ones...
>
> It is one reason he is greater than most at least of his contemporaries,
> imho.
>
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