CoL49 group reading ch6 (4) cherry picking

[Joseph Tracy]

Just a note on the chuckle when Bortz says I’ve been Bowdlerized in reverse or something, and looking for the Publisher finds it's K Da Chingado , Mexican Spanish meaning what the fuck? Or What a pile of shit.

> On Jul 26, 2024, at 2:39 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> “Bortz’s subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style
> of Fangoso Lagoons”
> 
> - Bortz has it pretty good, and he’s living inside a dream or bubble
> similar to PI’s concept of the good life
> 
> - the division of labor with Grace resembles that for which Oedipa was
> trying with Maas
> 
> - this section at the Bortz’s flows really well. Maybe because there’s so
> much dialogue, and Bortz is mannerly, erudite, and secure in his personhood?
> 
> 
> https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/bort#
> 
> a f <https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/flaw>lawed
> diamond used only for industrial purposes, esp. in crushed
> <https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/crush> form for
> grinding <https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/grind> and
> polishing
> : sometimes called bortz (bɔrts
> 
> 
> Also -
> 
> https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001/acref-9780195081374-e-6433#:~:text=1.,2.
> 
> German: nickname for a little fellow, from Low German dialect word meaning
> ‘buttocks’, ‘stump’. Compare Boortz.2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic):
> habitational name from a place in Lithuania, called Bortsi in Russian....
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> Oedipa gets a momentary case of the vapors upon learning of Driblette’s
> demise:
> 
> “They are stripping from me, she said subvocally—feeling like a fluttering
> curtain in a very high window, moving up to then out over the abyss—they
> are stripping away, one by one, my men. My shrink, pursued by Israelis, has
> gone mad; my husband, on LSD, gropes like a child further and further into
> the rooms and endless rooms of the elaborate candy house of himself and
> away, hopelessly away, from what has passed, I was hoping forever, for
> love; my one extra-marital fella has eloped with a depraved 15-year-old; my
> best guide back to the Trystero has taken a Brody. Where am I?”
> 
> 
> But with quiet aplomb, he brings her out of the unpleasant tailspin of the
> reverie:
> “I’m sorry,” Bortz had also said, watching her. Oedipa stayed with it.”
> 
> - “had also said” switching to the past perfect
> - nice touch, that’s the perfect tense to use
> - she’s off down a rabbit hole lamenting so many things
> - then she realizes, hey, Bortz said something, what was that again, oh
> yeah, we were talking about that paperback
> 
> 
> 
> 
> “Without warning, by the shores of what Blobb called “the Lake of Piety,”
> they were set upon by a score of black-cloaked riders”
> 
> - Lake of Piety? Isn’t that the same as the Lago Pietà?
> - yes, yes it is
> - bad Feng Shui there, evidently
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