Why is Data always italicized in M&D?

[Mark Kohut]

Nouns. Things. Data.

Solid. Facts.

Not the ambiguity of many other words. or History.



On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:51 AM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:

> Yeah, my guess was that it was a fairly ew or unused "fancy" word of the
> time of the book and so it got the special treatment. But I also thought
> that there were thematic or other reasons for it since TRP is very much
> about the data or the opposite of a heavenly city etc.
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> *From:* Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 26, 2017 3:47:40 PM
> *To:* Keith Davis
> *Cc:* John Bailey; da kid; Pynchon-l
> *Subject:* Re: Why is Data always italicized in M&D?
>
> English writers of the time period were imitating the German way of
> capitalizing nouns. &c.
>
> > On Aug 26, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I like your idea, John. Maybe he's drawing attention to the word as one
> that needs translation, as a word that we accept too readily as a concrete
> thing that only has one interpretation and carries a kind of weight or
> authority. "The data says it, so it's true."
> >
> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >
> >> On Aug 26, 2017, at 1:24 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it the literary convention of printing foreign (non-English) words
> >> in italics? Plenty of Latin and French in italics elsewhere in the
> >> book, although there's italics for emphasis too, even in non-spoken
> >> sections of the book.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:25 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:
> >>> What's goin on there huh?
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