M & D Group Read (cont)

[Mark Kohut]

"sermonlike with saucy bits thrown in."

Like a cherry Coke drink of American narratives...."Things go better with
Coke"


Not even a reliable coke-like history..."I'd like to buy the world a Coke",
says the admittedly unreliable narrator.
"The pause that refreshes".....
Very early slogan, 1922---"Thirst knows no season"....

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Very interesting  about German; I didn’t know, and never noticed about the
> different use of capitals; it's so easy to see only what you are looking
> for.
>   As is indicated here, neither  rules of capitalization nor standard
> spellings were in place in M&D’s time. There is a voice to Cherrycoke, sort
> of sermonlike with saucy bits thrown in. I find it helps me to try to read
> a sentence out loud occasionally and listen for the shift of tone, the
> aside, the potential humorous jab. When I really hear this voice  it slows
> down my reading pace  but seems to facilitate understanding.  In my view
> Ccoke is pretty much Pynchon grounded in his own private religion doing
> stand-up story telling in the 18th Century, but with sly references to his
> audience in the 20th C.
>  I would be interested to hear how others hear or listen for Ccoke’s voice.
>
> > On Jan 10, 2018, at 2:05 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > A-and surely not "common".
> >
> > 2018-01-09 22:39 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> > realm is not a place. not an 'important noun".
> >
> > Hart recommended his readers to use a capital letter at the beginning of
> every sentence, proper name, and important common noun. By the 17th
> century, the practice had extended to titles (Sir, Lady), forms of address
> (Father, Mistris), and personified nouns (Nature). Emphasized words and
> phrases would also attract a capital. By the beginning of the 18th century,
> the influence of Continental books had caused this practice to be extended
> still further (e.g. to the names of the branches of knowledge), and it was
> not long before some writers began using a capital for any noun that they
> felt to be important. Books appeared in which all or most nouns were given
> an initial capital (as is done systematically in modern German) - perhaps
> for aesthetic reasons, or perhaps because printers were uncertain about
> which nouns to capitalize, and so capitalized them all.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Gene DA <genevievej.da at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Which Speculation am I all ears for! One of my questions thus far being
> a curiosity about the capitalization; rhyme, reason, or madness? There
> seemed to be a drop-off in capitalization frequency after the first couple
> of chapters. At first, I assumed it was only a time period custom and left
> speculation on patterns for later. I was pronouncing sentences as I read
> with so much alternating emphasis that it was much too distracting.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > yes, the early LED chapter is VERY IMPORTANT
> > in setting out major themes of M & D, as Smoke said.
> >
> > Notice it is the LED---this true historical charlatan of
> > the time, this dog who is like humans, who
> > "Somehow the Learned dog has led him [Mason] to presume
> > there exist safe-conduct Procedures for the realm
> > of Death." [Why is realm not capped?, I ask, having a Speculation to
> Hand]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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