https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=BleakhausThomas Pynchon Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-06-04T22:17:11ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16:_167-174&diff=2227Chapter 16: 167-1742007-03-05T06:22:29Z<p>Bleakhaus: /* Page 171 */ Pynch and cities?</p>
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'''country wife, city wife'''<br><br />
Pynchon's life values in evidence? He dislikes cities, seen elsewhere.<br />
:Elsewhere where? He has lived in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, and London. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 22:22, 4 March 2007 (PST) <br />
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'''Bread & Wine, a kindness of the Almighty'''<br><br />
Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body<br />
and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.<br />
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'''Death or its ev'ryday Coercions'''...Death's thousand Metaphors'''<br><br />
See this theme in Against the Day; all of the day's necessities that are<br />
against the simple living of life...all that is "against the day".<br />
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'''acted as a Lens, a moral refraction'''<br><br />
Once again, light as metaphor, lenses and refraction ala ATD.<br />
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'''see them as they are'''<br><br />
Only in death..in life, M & D and everyone struggles to see the heavenly bodies clearly. Nice.<br />
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'''Telluric secrets'''<br><br />
telluric: adj. Of or relating to Earth; terrestrial. Derived from or containing tellurium, especially with valence 6.<br />
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'''Bradley's Metaphor'''<br><br />
Bradley, Dr. James (1693-1762)<br />
Astronomer Royal at the time a request for an English surveying team to determine the Pennsylvania/Maryland border was made. Bradley was the director of the the Greenwich Observatory. He recommended Charles Mason who had been his assistant observer from 1756 to 1760, working closely with Bradley on a catalogue of positions of the moon. In 1729 he published his discovery of the aberration of light, providing the first observational proof of the Copernican hypothesis that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not vice versa.<br />
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'''Canary Coat'''<br><br />
"His yellow jacket with red sleeves indicates that he is a 'canary', temporarily forced to wear this distinctive coat as a defaulter against Hospital rules (often for drunkenness).... the infliction of the 'canary' coat on pensioners as a punishment was abolished by Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, during his Governorship of the Hospital in the 1830s."<br />
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'''To Break-Neck'''<br><br />
Breakneck Ridge is a mountain along the Hudson River between Beacon and Cold Spring, New York, straddling the boundary between Dutchess and Putnam counties. Its distinctive rocky cliffs are visible for a long distance when approached from the south, and together with Storm King Mountain on the opposite bank of the river forms Wey-Gat, or Wind Gate, the picturesque northern gateway to the Hudson Highlands.<br />
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It has several summits, the highest, some distance inland, reaching approximately 1,260 feet (384 m) above sea level. The southern face of the peak is remarkable for its striking cliffs, the result of quarrying in past years. Lying within Hudson Highlands State Park, it offers many stunning views of the river and region and is quite popular with hikers.Wikipedia.</div>Bleakhaushttps://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_8:_77-86&diff=1965Chapter 8: 77-862007-01-31T17:32:22Z<p>Bleakhaus: /* Page 79 */ Tell me what'd i say?</p>
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'''Etesian'''<br><br />
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'''not whistle'''<br><br />
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'''Torpedick'''<br><br />
Like an eel.<br />
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'''''Bandieten'''''<br><br />
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'''Pumplenose'''<br><br />
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'''monitory'''<br><br />
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'''the Watch'''<br><br />
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'''his Fell'''<br><br />
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'''virid'''<br><br />
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'''''Voorhuis'''''<br><br />
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'''"Tell me, what'd I say?"'''<br><br />
Perhaps a reference to Ray Charles' 1959 hit song, "What'd I say," which features this line. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What'd_I_Say Wikipedia entry]<br />
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'''lock'd his front door'''<br><br />
(Traditional?)<br />
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'''Fumulus'''<br><br />
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'''''Stoep'''''<br><br />
Entered English as 'stoop' in 1789.<br />
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'''Theater of the Japanese'''<br><br />
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'''Younkers'''<br><br />
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'''delegated the sighing'''<br><br />
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'''Jesuit part'''<br><br />
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'''''lengkua'''''<br><br />
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'''Bilimbi pickles'''<br><br />
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'''''Bobotie'''''<br><br />
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'''''Frikkadel'''''<br><br />
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'''Satay'''<br><br />
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'''Rakhman'''<br><br />
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'''even better, as Eve'''<br><br />
(No missing rib? Gets to be disobedient?)<br />
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'''B-st-rd'''<br><br />
Who's censoring here? A convention in 18th century literature.<br />
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'''a Tun short... law'''<br><br />
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'''Fence-Runner'''<br><br />
Not in OED? He means surveyer, insinuating that all surveyers do is measure property lines.<br />
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'''recreations including running ''Amok'''''<br><br />
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