NP but Joseph Heller's Good as Gold

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, reminds of the banana feast and also, to me, has the rhythms of that happy cooking abundance paragraph in Mason & Dixon, written later of course. 

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> On Dec 22, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, I missed the third meaning of compote in the OED, which refers to the
> word "comport". Now it all makes sense. Thanks, Laura.
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:29 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Seems like it's just an industrial-sized vessel. There's a lot of
>> hyperbole in the passage. If Pynchon borrowed from, or was at least
>> influenced by Catch 22, Heller has retaliated here by ripping off the GR
>> banana feast.
>> 
>> Wishing a mirthful belated Solstice to all,
>> 
>> Laura
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 1:59 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is a sentence from Joseph Heller's Good as Gold:
>>> 
>>> There were pans of biscuits and baskets of eggs, rashers of bacon and
>>> kettles of fish, creamers and crocks and gallipots brimming, compotes and
>>> hoppers and casseroles steaming, dry cereals in bushels and hot ones in
>>> cauldrons, platters of sausage and trays of beef, kegs of butter and bins
>>> of cheese, urns of fresh milk and jugs of hot coffee, and condiments in
>>> cruets, flagons, and flasks.
>>> 
>>> What does the word "hopper" mean here? I can't seem to find anything that
>>> makes sense from the dictionary.
>>> 
>>> I'm still putting the finishing touches on the three books I've been
>>> working on, Good as Gold being one of them. They should all be getting
>>> published sometime next year. It appears that I need to improve my Chinese
>>> writing skills a lot in order to be a really good translator, but I'm
>>> improving and doing the best I can as always. It also turns out revision
>>> is
>>> really the key to a good translation, I think I read that from an article
>>> Mark recommended. So thanks Mark.
>>> 
>>> I'll probably be back for my regular AtD questions in a month or two,
>>> after
>>> all this is done.
>>> 
>>> Mike Jing
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