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Subject: pynchon-l-digest V2 #3527
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> pynchon-l-digest Tuesday, September 2 2003 Volume 02 : Number
3527
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> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:48:31 -0400
> From: "Don Corathers" <gumbo@fuse.net>
> Subject: Re: NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2
>
> I wrote:
>
> > Sudarg of Bokay. A reflection of the name of a glassmaker we know,
> engraved
> > on the surface of a "really fantastic mirror." It is problematical that
> the
> > mirror was made for Charles's grandfather, presumably quite some time
ago.
> > That would seem to make it impossible for our Jacob Gradus, born in 1915
> and
> > just 21at the time Fleur gazes at her reflection in the mirror, to be
its
> > craftsman. Perhaps it was made by his grandfather. Is Kinbote, the
expert
> on
> > surnames who just a few notes ago was lecturing us about variants,
unaware
> > of this reference to Gradus? He seems to be.
> >
>
> The question of when Sudarg lived and when the mirror was made is coyly
> addressed in his index entry, which also seems to show no awareness on
> Kinbote's part of the Gradus connection:
>
> Sudarg of Bokay, a mirror maker of genius, the patron saint of Bokay in
the
> mountains of Zembla, 80; life span not known.
>
> Don
>
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From: "pynchon-l-digest" <owner-pynchon-l-digest@waste.org>
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Subject: pynchon-l-digest V2 #3527
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> pynchon-l-digest Tuesday, September 2 2003 Volume 02 : Number
3527
>
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:48:31 -0400
> From: "Don Corathers" <gumbo@fuse.net>
> Subject: Re: NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2
>
> I wrote:
>
> > Sudarg of Bokay. A reflection of the name of a glassmaker we know,
> engraved
> > on the surface of a "really fantastic mirror." It is problematical that
> the
> > mirror was made for Charles's grandfather, presumably quite some time
ago.
> > That would seem to make it impossible for our Jacob Gradus, born in 1915
> and
> > just 21at the time Fleur gazes at her reflection in the mirror, to be
its
> > craftsman. Perhaps it was made by his grandfather. Is Kinbote, the
expert
> on
> > surnames who just a few notes ago was lecturing us about variants,
unaware
> > of this reference to Gradus? He seems to be.
> >
>
> The question of when Sudarg lived and when the mirror was made is coyly
> addressed in his index entry, which also seems to show no awareness on
> Kinbote's part of the Gradus connection:
>
> Sudarg of Bokay, a mirror maker of genius, the patron saint of Bokay in
the
> mountains of Zembla, 80; life span not known.
>
> Don
>
> ------------------------------
>
> > End of pynchon-l-digest V2 #3527
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