AtD translation: on the Rialto

[Mark Kohut]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rialto

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:58 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P252.19-26   Renata was gazing at him thoughtfully from huge eyes of a
> curious verdigrised bronze color. “And it was you, Dottore, who invented
> these special lenses.”
>        “Well, no. This hasn’t been invented yet. I found it—it found me?—a
> fisherman in the fog, casting his lines again and again into the invisible
> river, the flow of Time, hoping to retrieve just such artifacts as this.”
>        “Affascinante, caro. Does that mean, if I live long enough, I might
> get to see this on the Rialto someday for sale by the dozens?”
>
> Does the Rialto here refer to the bridge?
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>