No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol—cross or crescent or whatever—that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral code and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope…

Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday.…50 U.S. hospitals mark up prices 1000 percent for some patients, study finds [POST]

(An interesting fact raised in the article is that there are about 5,000 hospitals in the U.S. — confirmed here, which says 5,686.)

Pausanias, Desc. of Greece, Laconia, 24. 2:

εστι δε και υδατος ψυχρου κρουνος εκβαλλων εκ πετρας

ψυχρου (ψυχρος, -α, -ον): cold, chill κρουνος, -ou (m): spring, well-head.

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There is also a spring of cold water flowing out from the rocks.

dispositivos lentos

In the essay “How To Read” Ezra Pound recommends the books below as “a curriculum for instructors, for obstreperous students who wish to annoy dull instructors, for men who haven’t had time for systemized college courses.” He stresses that you have to be careful about the translation and make inroads, even if not big ones, into learning the original language.
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–HOMER, in full

–OVID, and the Latin ‘personal’ poets, Catullus and Propertius.

–A PROVENCAL SONG BOOK– With cross reference to Minnesingers, and to Bion, perhaps thirty poems in all.

–DANTE– ‘And his circle’; that is to say Dante, and thirty poems by his contemporaries, mostly by Guido Cavalcanti.

–VILLON–

[…]

VOLTAIRE– That is to say, some incursion into his critical writings, not into his attempts at fiction and drama, and some dip into his contemporaries (prose).

STENDHAL– [Le Rouge et Le Noir and the first half of La Chartreuse de Parme.]

FLAUBERT (omitting Salambo and the Tentation) — and the Goncourts.

GAUTIER, CORBIERE, RIMBAUD.

Submarine Alert (*). The Narrow Margin (*/ “sixty cent special… strictly poison under the gravy”) from “Tess” enjoyed his quote of Whitman that appeared

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes,
How curious you are to me!–

and this of Hardy’s own:

Upon her sensations the whole world depended to Tess; through her existence all her fellow creatures existed, to her.

Not so much a concordance as a gathering of key statements on central themes.

Neon: “so that not only your whole life but every single humanly conceivable way to describe and account for that life has time to flash like neon shaped into those connected cursive letters […]” [179, footnote]; “this little photo’s guy a year ahead of him in school with the seemingly almost neon aura around him all the time of scholastic and athletic excellence and popularity and success […]” [180] [Note: it comes to mind that there a neon sign belonging to a podiatrist’s clinic in The Pale King. See Pale King pp.165.]

Death: “it gets a lot more interesting when I get to the part where I kill myself and discover what happens immediately after a person dies” [143]; “dead or not, Dr. Gustafson knew more about all this than I” [153]; “after we’d both died and were outside linear time and in the process of dramatic change” [163]; “I actually convinced myself that the tongues’ babble was real language and somehow less false than plain English”; “it’s not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die by the way” [166]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “A lot of history’s great logicians have ended up killing themselves” [167]; “the reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all” [180];

Time: “outside of the logical sequential clock time we all live by” [151]; “words and chronological time creat all these total misunderstandings of what’s really going on” [151]; “if I’m saying words that words and sequential time have nothing to do with it you’re wondering why we’re sitting here in this car using words and taking up you’re increasingly precious time” [152]; “how clumsy and laborious it seems to convey the smallest thing. How much time would you even say has passed” [153]; “all the English that’s been expended on just my head’s partial contents in the tiny interval bewteen then and now” [153]; “that would take too much time to relate in detail” [158]; “the dream takes place in dream time as opposed to waking chronological time”; “the speed with which my whole life blew by like that” [161]; || “the sheer amount of time Dr. Gustafson spent touching and smoothing his mustache” [162]; “after we’d both died and were outside linear time and in the process of dramatic change” [163]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “This occurred at 9:17 PM on August 19, 1991, if you want to know the fixed time precisely.” [173]; “it was intensely mental and would take an enormous amount of time to put into words” [174]; “if it was going to hurt I wanted it instant” [176]; “instant” [177]; “because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time which to express it or convey it, and you don’t even need any organized English” [178]; “What if no time passed at all?*” [179] (w/ footnote discussing past, present and future in terms of a speeding automobile);

Logic: “he thought he’d caught me in some kind of logical contradiction” [146]; “there was a basic logical paradox I called the ‘fraudulence paradox'” [147]; “aren’t I sort of logically contradicting myself right at the start” [152]; “or, in logical terms, that their domans were exhaustive and mutually exlusive” (formula here) [164]; “‘validity’ (which happens also to be a term from formal logic)” [164]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first.” [167]; “A lot of history’s great logicians have ended up killing themselves” [167]; “The German logician Kant” [173];

Language (words): “the realization didn’t hit me in words” (also around here statements about putting things clumsily, “a long, rushing, clumsy way,” etc., and again on pp. 150) [148]; “just try and put a few seconds’ silences’ flood of thoughts into words.” [150]; “one word after another word English we all communicate with each other with” [151]; “words and chronological time creat all these total misunderstandings of what’s really going on […] and yet at the same time English is all we have to understand it” [151]; “if I’m saying words that words and sequential time have nothing to do with it you’re wondering why we’re sitting here in this car using words and taking up you’re increasingly precious time” [152]; “how clumsy and laborious it seems to convey the smallest thing. How much time would you even say has passed” [153]; “all the English that’s been expended on just my head’s partial contents in the tiny interval bewteen then and now” [153]; “I actually convinced myself that the tongues’ babble was real language and somehow less false than plain English”; “it’s not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die by the way” [166]; “In logical terms, something expressed in words will still have the same ‘cardinality’ but no longer the same ‘ordinality.’ All the different words are still there, in other words, but it’s no longer a question of which comes first” [167]; “it was intensely mental and would take an enormous amount of time to put into words” [174]; “as a verbal construction I know that’s a cliche” [175]; graffiti you can’t even read [176]; “because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time which to express it or convey it, and you don’t even need any organized English” [178]; “it’s not English anymore, it’s not getting squeezed through any hole” [179]; “not another word” [181].

Other words/ themes (to look into potentially): “flash”, “paradox”, “keyhole”, “insect”, the various women’s names, cliche (Neon makes some of the same points about cliche that Infinite Jest does), baseball (American Legion); sexual double-entendres.

The Fraudulence Paradox [147]:

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn’t find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.

Other: Berry Paradox, Russell’s paradox, list of logic symbols, respice finem, Moser.

–(Feeling like a fraud is a natural result of trying to communicate in regular linear time what truly occurs in instantaneous all-encompassing time? Is dieing like writing? Writing is like giving full expression to what happens in an instant — that is– life?)

Feel I disagree with this –I feel I do, rather than actually doing so– but can positively confirm a strong sense of disagreement. Why (what words does this ‘strong sense’ evoke):–

The Humanities are proponents of the solitary and so necessarily in conflict with technology, which is a proponent of the “connected” and “linked in”. Technology represents ‘the crowd’ while the humanities represent ‘the one.” (Monarchy could have/ did repeatedly, survive democracy in the ancient world, but could it have/ can it, survive technology today? Can an individual?)

To have a chance of not being utterly decimated in this conflict — supposing it to have already been defeated– and supposing further its decimation to be undesirable, the humanities’ greatest champions should be put forward; and Shakespeare, “being clearly the greatest champion of English literature” and so forth –and of the humanities probably too– should consequently be focused on: it is Shakespeare that ought to meet the Hector of Technology….

In short, the best secular reason one might give for going for a walk (solitude) instead of surfing the web (the crowd) is Shakespeare — concludes, not entirely unreasonably, the voice evoked by this “strong sense.”

Pindar, Pythian 3.107-109:

σμικρὸς ἐν σμικροῖς, μέγας ἐν μεγάλοις
ἔσσομαι: τὸν ἀμφέποντ᾽ αἰεὶ φρασὶν
δαίμον᾽ ἀσκήσω κατ᾽ ἐμὰν θεραπεύων μαχανάν.

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[θεραπεύων a nominative masc. participle agreeing with subject ἀσκήσω]

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Svarlien: “I will be small when my fortunes are small, great when they are great. I will honor in my mind the fortune that attends me from day to day, tending it to the best of my ability.”

William H. Race (Loeb): “I shall be small in small times, great in great ones;/ I shall honor with my mind whatever fortune attends me,/ by serving it with the means at my disposal.”

α = r * β … “first fundamental rule of capitalism” where α is the share of income from capital in national income; r is the rate of return on capital, and β the capital to income ratio. [pp.52]

β = s / g … “second fundamental rule of capitalism” where β is the capital to income ratio; s is the saving rate; and g is the growth rate. [pp.166]

b_y = μ * m * β … “annual economic flow of inheritances and gifts, expressed as a proportion of national income” (b_y) where μ is the ratio of average wealth at time of death to average wealth of living individuals, m is the mortality rate, and β is the capital to income ratio (here the total private wealth to national income).

r > g … rate of return on capital (r) is greater than economic growth (g).

The word ‘pluck’ (as a verb) seemed to occur an unusual number of times in Measure for Measure, or at least to be used in unusual ways. In brief: Angelo ‘plucks down’ (closes) the brothels in Vienna; the Duke says “liberty plucks justice by the nose” in Vienna; a specific brothel is described as having been “plucked down”; Isabella claims that Angelo “plucks on others”, and later yearns to “pluck out” his eyes. Finally, Lucio, in the play’s last mention, claims falsely that he ‘plucked’ the friar (the disguised Duke) ‘by the nose’ for having spoken abusively of the Duke, (in fact, it was Lucio himself who’d insulted the duke.)
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Act I: “All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down” [1.2.95] (pompey); “liberty plucks justice by the nose” [1.3.29] (Duke);

Act II: “He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they say, plucked down in the suburbs” [2.1.65] (Elbow); ” I know your virtue hath a licence in’t, Which seems a little fouler than it is, To pluck on others” [2.4.146] (Isabella to Angelo);

Act III:

Act IV: “O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!” [4.3.119] (Isabella to disguised Duke, of Angelo).

Act V: “O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the nose for thy speeches?” [5.1.345] (Lucio to Duke, disguised as friar.)

that “sighs are to thoughts as groans are to bodily aches” repetitive thoughts like repetitive motions and resulting in the degradation of mental parts like physical joints — the aching back more of an ooch the recurring thought more a blowing (a soundless o or tongueless sibilant)– to reflect upon: “motions are the thoughts of the body” — (why wouldn’t thoughts be the thoughts of the body?) — because motions are an emanation of the whole body and thoughts are an emanation of one part of it– “a great civilization coming from out of the mediterranean isn’t a mouth piece for the whole of the turning earth” […]

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Peter Singer I don’t think can be right here. If giving is only for the transference of property from a party with more to a party with less I suppose he could be right, but doesn’t giving provide something to the giver as well? isn’t there a spiritual concern in the person of the giver that giving addresses? If that concern exists only because of the unequal distribution of goods, I suppose a universal tax on wealth and income would suffice to resolve it (despite the fact that it would substantially divorce one from the experience of giving). And I suppose, too, that it may be there are other ways to resolve such a spiritual concern besides giving; it may be that the spiritual concern of some people may lie rather in the direction of receiving; maybe we could feed and clothe everyone first, and afterwards focus on spiritual shortcomings, in whatever direction they may lie — put another’s material want above one’s spiritual want… What if it were the case (although I think this is not the case) that no one could address spiritual issues until everyone had been clothed and fed? if a precondition for any morality or prayer to be possible was that everyone who wants to be is clothed and fed?

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perhaps the “precariously situated” boulder, as wikipedia has it, of the Course of Empire paintings achieves the same “repeating note” effect thought of here but visually

….something that tries to connect and contrast (that tries to determine the underlying appeal of) the “repeating same note effect” that occurs in both “better git it…” and “heroin.” and maybe also the “raindrop prelude” [#15] — another question — is the “repeating same note effect” the same as the “repeating word effect” [a la]; that is, is the repetition of notes in musical works and of words in dramatical works comparable on the level of their effects? and (somewhat related) is there a comparison to be made between repetition, as it appears in the arts, and coincidence, as it occurs in the world? — another question — what is it that keeps repetition from becoming repetitive? How interesting would the “rain drop” prelude be if it were only its repeated note?

Plants by Book

(1) (2) (3) (4) (Ep.)

Plants in All Books (by type)

Arbutus (arbutus: (1.1.21); (1.17.5). Ash (ornus): (1.9.12); (2.9.8); (3.27.58). Ash (fraxinus): (3.25.16). Balsam (balanus): (3.29.4). Blackberry bush (rubus): (1.23.6). Citron (citreus): (4.1.20). Cypress (cupressus): (1.9.11); (2.14.22); (4.6.10); (Ep.5.17). Elm (ulmus): (1.2.9); (2.15.5). Endive (chickory) (cichorium): (1.31.16). Fig tree, wild (caprificus): (Ep.5.18).Fig (ficus): (Ep.16.46).Garlic (allium): (Ep.3.3).Grape-berry (uva): (1.20.10); (2.5.6); (2.6.16); (Ep.2.20). Grape-vine (vitis): (1.18.1), (1.20.11); (1.31.10; (1.38.8); (3.1.44); (3.23.6); (4.5.30); (Ep.2.9). Grass (gramen): (1.15.30); (2.3.6); (3.7.26); ((4.7.1), (4.12.9); (Ep.2.17).Hemlock (cicuta): (Ep.3.3).Ivy (hedera): (1.1.29); (1.25.17); (1.36.20); (4.11.4). Laurel (laurus): (2.1.15); (2.2.22); (2.7.19); (2.15.9); (3.4.19); (3.14.2); (3.30.16); (4.2.9); (Ep.15.5).Lily (lilium):(1.36.16). Linden tree (philyra): (1.38.2). Mallow (malva): (1.31.16); (Ep.2.68).Myrrh (myrrha): (murreus) (3.14.2). Myrtle (myrtum): “viridis“(1.4.9); (1.25.18); (1.38.5), (1.38.7); (2.7.25); (2.15.6); (3.4.19); (3.23.16). Oak (robur): (1.1.3). Oaken (robustus): (3.16.2). Oak (quercus): (1.12.12); quercetum (2.9.7); (3.23.10); (4.13.10). Oak (aesculus):(aesculetum) (1.22.14); (3.10.17). Oak (ilex): (3.13.14), (3.23.10); (4.4.57); (Ep.2.23); (Ep.10.8); (Ep.15.5), (Ep.16.47). Olive (oliva): (1.7.7),(1.8.8); (1.31.15); oliveta (2.15.7); (Ep.2.56); (Ep.16.45). Palm (palma): (1.1.5); (3.20.12); (4.2.18). Parsley/ celery (apium):(1.36.16); (2.7.24); (4.11.3). Pear (pirum): (Ep.2.19).Pine (pinus): (1.14.11); (2.3.9); (2.10.10); (2.11.14); (3.22.5); (4.6.10). Pine / Pitch-pine (taeda): (4.4.43. Plane Tree (platanus): (2.11.13); (2.15.4). Poplar (populeus): (1.7.23); (2.3.9); (Ep.2.10). Rose (rosa): (1.5.1), (1.36.15), (1.38.3); (2.3.14); (2.11.14); (3.15.15); (3.19.22); (3.29.3); (4.10.4). Rosemary (ros marinus): (3.23.15-16). Seaweed (alga): (3.17.10). Sorrel (lapathum): (Ep.2.57).Spikenard (costum): (3.1.44); (4.12.16), (4.12.17). Thyme (thymum): (1.17.6); (4.2.29). Tragopogon (come): (1.21.5); (4.7.2). Violet (viola): violarium (2.15.5). Willow (grove) (salictum): (2.5.6).

“Tree”

(arbor): “glory grows like” (1.12.45); (1.18.1); (1.22.18); “lyre once heeded by trees” (1.24.14); tree (arbos) almost killing Horace (2.13.3) same tree referred to as “truncus” in (2.17.27); [truncus again (2.19.11)]; (2.14.22; (3.1.30); (3.4.27); “almost sent to my grave by a–“(3.8.8); “unmarried” (4.5.30); (4.7.2); (Ep.2.56); tree on hillside (Ep.12.20), (Ep.16.46).

General References

Flower (flos) (1.4.10); grove (lucus) (1.4.11); grove (lucus) (1.7.13); orchard (pomarius)(1.7.14); garland (corona) (1.7.23); woods (sylvae) (1.9.3), logs (lignum) (1.9.5); “carpe diem” (carpe has of ‘pluck’) (1.11.8); woods (sylvae) (1.12.8), grove (lucus) (1.12.60); “rosy” (1.13.2); sylvae (1.14.11); woodland (nemus) (1.17.5), “garland” (1.17.27), leaves (frons) (1.18.12); turf, cut sod (caespes) (1.19.14); Sacred Bough (verbena): (1.19.14); woodland (nemus) (1.21.5), silva & viridis (1.21.8); Sabine wood (sylva) (1.22.9); sylva (1.23.4), leaf (folium) (1.23.6); leafy branch (frons) (1.25.19); flower (flos) (1.26.7), garland (1.26.8); “woods of Venusia” (1.28.27); cornfield (seges) (1.31.4); garland (1.38.2); branches (ramus) (2.3.11); “blooms” (flos)(2.3.14); “woodland” (saltus)(2.3.17); “green meadows” (virentis compos) (2.5.6); “berry, round fruit” (baca) (2.6.16); garland/ garlanded (2.7.7/24); leaves (folium)(2.9.8); flowers (flos) (2.11.9); lumber (lignum) (2.13.3); branches (ramus) (2.15.9); thyrsus (2.19.11). arbustum (3.1.10); vineyard (vinea) (3.1.29); grove (lucus)(3.4.7); leaves (frons) (3.4.12); “glade” (saltus) (3.4.15); “trunks” (truncus)(3.4.55) [see entry for “tree” in book ii]; thicket (dumetum) (3.4.63), woods (silva) (3.4.63); Flower (flos) (3.8.2); turf (caespes) (3.8.4); cork (cortex) (3.8.10); cork (cortex) (3.9.22); nemus, satum (3.10.5-6); woods (sylva) (3.11.13; thicket (fruticetum) (3.12.12); Flower (flos) (3.13.2); “garland” (corona and vitta) (3.14.8,17); flos (3.15.15); silva (3.16.29); woodland (nemus) (3.17.9), leaf (folium) (3.17.9), firwood (lignum) (3.17.14); “grassy” herbosus) (3.18.9), woods, leaves (sylva, fronds) (3.18.14); “Rosy” (Rhode) (3.19.27); woodland (nemus) (3.22.1); fruit (frux) (3.23.4), fruit bearing (pomifer) (3.23.8), crop (seges) (3.23.6), herbage (herba) (3.23.11), “a sort of grain” (far) (3.23.20); fruit (frux) (3.24.13), Ceres (3.24.13); woodland (nemus) (3.25.2); vine-leaf (pampinus) (3.25.20); Flower (flos)/ garland (corona) (3.27.29-30), pluck (carpere) flowers (flos), (3.27.44), sap (sucus) (3.27.54); flos (3.29.3), Sylvanus, thickets (dumetum) (3.29.23), stock, stem (stirps) (3.29.37).flos (4.1.32); nemus (4.2.30); leaves (frons) (4.2.36); herba (4.2.55); folium (4.3.7), nemus (4.3.11); frons (4.4.58); Ceres (4.5.18); “crops” (frux) (4.6.39); pomifer, frux (4.7.11); vine-leaf (pampinus)(4.8.33); “blossom, flower” (flos) (4.10.4); garden (hortus) (4.11.2) leafy twig (verbena)(4.11.7); slip, shoot (propago) (Ep.2.9); branches (ramos) (Ep.2.13); fruit tree (pomus) (Ep.2.17), woods (silva) (Ep.2.17), fire wood (lignis) (Ep.2.43), branches of trees (ramis arborum)(Ep.2.56), “blades, leaves” (herba)(Ep.2.57); “salad” (herbis) (Ep.3.7); herba (Ep.5.21), herba and root (radix) (Ep.5.67-68); woods (nemus) (Ep.6.9); woods (silva) (Ep.11.6); woods (silva) (Ep.13.2), “nard” (nardus) (Ep.13.2); Ceres, floreo (Ep.16.43-44), vine-garden (vinea) (Ep.16.44), branch (termes) (Ep.16.45), seed (semen) (Ep.16.55).

Some Concordances of a Similar Stripe on this Website

hats in Against the Day, Nothing in Lear, Beautiful in Golden Bowl… most recently… Late Spring

Gudgeon. Brothers Karamazov, book 2, section 8:

“I don’t like falsehood, fathers, I want the truth. But the truth is not to be found in eating gudgeon and that I proclaim aloud!”

(Random notes after a recent viewing…)

Excretory

Vincent is shitting when Ringo and Yolanda hold up the coffee shop.

Vincent is shitting when Butch comes into his apartment (the one Vincent is guarding) to retrieve the watch.

(The watch itself is said to have been concealed in the rectum of Butch’s father’s friend.)

Yolanda says (in a moment of fear during the coffee shop hold-up, when Jules is threatening Ringo’s life) “I need to pee.”

Jules (having returned from the episode of the coffee shop and brief case, when Vincent is discussing his upcoming date with Mia with Paul) says — “I’m gonna piss.”

Vince, at Mia’s, says he’s gonna take a piss.

(Doesn’t Ringo tell Yolanda they’ll “catch them with their pants down”? This is literally the case with Vince. Vince is also “caught with his pants down” with Butch.)

“Through Vince…we see the contemporary world as utterly contingent, transformed, disastrously, in the instant you are not looking.” (wiki)

International

Esmerelda is Colombian; Fabienne is French; Vincent Vega suggests Italian; Mia (maybe Italian); the Wallace home decorated in African Icons, (“Marsellus” suggests Ancient Rome); Vincent has just returned from a three-year stay in Amsterdam; Mia reports that she will go to Amsterdam on a yearly basis; Butch and Fabienne plan to escape to South East Asian locations; (Marsellus remarks that, even should Butch go to French Indo China, he will find him); (the only way Butch can save himself from Marsellus is by saving Marsellus from white male rapists); Wolf I guess suggests Germany; ethnic tension between Butch (Polish) and Vincent (Italian) which is also a tension about who will and who will not do certain things for Marsellus; Antwan Rockamora (Tony Rocky Horror) is 1/2 black 1/2 Samoan.

The movie begins with Internationals: two British persons discussing other immigrants in America (Vietnamese, Koreans) “If it’s not the gooks it’s the fucking jews.” The movie’s second scene involves an American’s discoveries abroad…

White/ Black

Bonnie apparently African American; Jules and Vincent another clear Black/ White correspondence; Vince doesn’t deal well with Butch, a white polish person to his white Italian person, but Vince enjoyed Amsterdam… The wife of Marsellus is white. Vincent and Jules are black and white; Marsellus and Butch are black and white; Marsellus and Mia are black and white; Jimmie and Bonnie are black and white… Winston, Brett, the drug dealers, Maynard and Zed, and the store robbers, are white. [See also.]

Sequence of Events
(but have to check this)

first, J&V go to get the brief case; second, the bonnie situation & marvin incident; third, the attempted coffee shop heist; fourth, the bar where they see butch; fifth, the night out of mia and Vincent; sixth, the boxing match; seventh, death of Vincent & escape of Butch.

Automobiles

Vince’s car (a Malibu?) has been “fucked with” (keyed), we see him high on heroin driving his car, we see him with Mia seated at a dining table shaped like an automobile, we see him driving his car recklessly into trash cans (outside of the drug dealer’s); Mr. Wolf drives an Acura; the Nova, which has been messed up through gangster activity, is remade with the blankets, quilts of the suburbs; “I’m sorry baby I had to crash that honda,” (Butch crashes Fabienne’s Honda); Zed’s bike; Esmerelda’s taxi…

There is no longer a Hardee’s in Red Oak — it closed years ago — just as there is no longer an economy where part-time ­fast-food jobs are remembered as a stop on a journey. But the biscuit ovens at the Hardee’s in Creston, 50 miles east on Highway 34, are still firing up every morning at 5.… Anne Hull, POST. [Creston]

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CLOTHING

Suits: Napoleon’s (1.2); woman’s (2.8); powder blue tropical worsted suit (1.7); young black man’s dark suit, suit jacket (1.8); pale blue silk suit (2.11); oxford gray (1.9); “dark suit” (2.16); woman’s gabardine suit (1.10); one button lounge suits (2.24): dirty dark suit (young black man) (1.16); woman’s office clothes, dark suit (2.20); oxford gray shadow stripe suit (1.19); black gabardine suits (2.10); card “suits” (2.7); ill fitting Hugo Boss or Armani suit (1.26); dark gray suit, badly fitting suit (1.26);

Dresses: green dress, dressed slipped up (2.18); skirt (2.8); dress and slip (1.3); white sun dress (1.7); nurse’s white outfit, waitresses pink outfit (2.11); skirt (2.16); purple velvet dress, long flowered skirt (1.10); skirt (2.15); “magical” black dress with gold things (2.23); skirt (1.12); skirt (2.2); black velour with silver stitching (1.14); skirt (1.16); skirt (1.16); black dress with gold threads (1.18); sweaty dirty dress (2.8); flowered skirt (2.10); [not a dress but the flower print motif returns on a housecoat and kitchen floor in (1.20)]; black and silver evening dress that needs cleaning (1.24); [“dressed to look like moms”] (2.25); skirt made of hides and leaves (2.22); purple velvet dress with black silk jacket, black gabardine suit (1.26); black dress, purple velvet dress, little black dress,

Lingerie: (1.1); (1.3); (2.5); white brassiere (1.8); “nothing but her slip” (2.11); half slip, brassiere, panties (2.16); slip (2.2); slip, panties (1.16); underwear off “naked beneath her skirt” (1.16); not wearing underwear but a hat and scarf (1.17); her “best underwear” (1.18); a pink two way stretch girdle (1.20); aluminum crotch of jeans (1.22);

Other Undergarments: (1.1); chemise (1.3); (2.5); white brassiere (1.8); slip, anklettes (2.11); brassiere, half slip,(2.16); slip on and off (2.2); taking them off beforehand (2.9); no underwear but hat and scarf (1.17); “best” (1.18); shared underwear, left stockings and garter, packaged of Hanes briefs (2.10); pink girdle (1.20);

Hats: homburg, fedora (1.1); borsalino, baseball caps (1.7); black watch cap (1.8); homburg (1.9); fedora (2.23); (2.1); homburg (2.19); stained homburg (1.15); “hat and scarf” (1.17); pearl gray homburg (1.19); pearl gray homburg (2.10); pearl gray homburg (1.23)

White shirt/ blouse: gleaming white shirt (1.2); blouse (2.8); “white chemise” (1.3); white sun dress (1.7); starched white shirt (1.8); (1.9); white shirt (2.16); snow white scarf (2.23); dirty shirt (1.16); (2.20); (1.26)

Camel hair coat: [2.19]; “aluminum jeans” : (1.22); Scarf: white silk blue polka dots (1.1), “a silk scarf, snow-white with blue polka dots” (2.23); silk scarf, a Christmas gift (“made in Italy, B.Altman’s, the works”) (2.1); “hat and scarf” (1.17); “hat and scarf” (2.25); (1.25). Green Dress: (1.1). Green skating outfit (2.25). black blouse (2.25). Suede Jacket: (1.5); (2.5); woman’s (1.10). Suede gloves: (1.8). Shorts: (1.10).

NAMED CHARACTERS

Al: husband of Janet (2.16); ex-husband of Dottie (2.9);

Anna: long suffering housewife of Jack, mother of Joey (2.18); ex-wife of Jack mother of Charlie (2.6); mutual friend to Clara and Ray (2.3); is she Anna or Cora? (2.17); Anna, ex-wife and/or girlfriend of deceased, “twin” of Irene (2.26).

Bill: stoner musician, lover of Inez (2.13); former husband of Irene Greenleaf; Bill Greenleaf, salesman of the year at Ray’s firm (2.3); husband of Jenny, lover of Inez (2.5);

Blackie: old man (1.7); real name Pierre: husband to Janet, lover of Maureen, father to Clara (2.1);

Carson: married man interested in coworker (1.2)

Claire: wife of napoleon (1.2); “unsettlingly placid” “beautiful” old friend of Inez (maybe) (2.13); Clara (1.4); Clara, Ray’s wife, Maureen’s mother (2.3); (1.8); two Claires who are dental patients, first of which “Claire Page” (2.15); Clara, daughter of “Blackie” (Pierre) and Janet (2.1); niece of Ray (1.13); wife of Napoleon? (2.2); niece of unnamed old man (1.19); is she Claire or Inez? (2.17)

Charles: (1.8)

“Claudia”: (1.3); fiance of Warren (2.21)

Charlotte: secretary then mistress and then wife of Bill(2.4)

Connie Moran: lawyer (2.3).

Cora: Anna or Cora? (2.25)

Dottie: ex-wife of Al (2.9);

Elaine: friend, rival and near twin of Jenny (2.10)

Estelle: (1.9); Al’s lover, (2.9); in list of women’s names (2.25)

Ferlon Grevette: see Napoleon.

Inez: married to Ralph (2.13); married to Ralph, lover of Bill (2.5); wife and nurse of Dr. Ralph Greenleaf (2.15) “Is she Claire or Inez?” (2.25)

Irene Greenleaf: (2.4); mistress of Jack (husband of Anna) (2.8); ex-wife and/or girlfriend of deceased, double of Anna (1.26).

Ingebretsen: Pastor (2.3)

Jack: unfaithful husband of Anna (wife beater, rapist), father of Joey (“slow”), mistress of Jenny (2.18); “Jack Walsh” Janet’s former boss (2.3); Italian ethnicity, wife of Anna, father of Charlie (“cockeyed”), affair with Irene (2.6); son of Janet, grandson of unnamed (2.21).

Janet: cousin of unnamed woman (1.1); secretary and mistress of Ray (2.3); of “Jack Walsh” (2.3); wife of Al (2.16); wife of Blackie (Pierre), mother of Clara (2.1); daughter of unnamed, mother of Jack, sister of Warren (2.21).

Jenny: mistress of Jack (2.18); old girlfriend of unnamed person in San Fran. (1.5); married to Bill (in San Fran) mistress of Ralph [2.5]; associated with Warren and Poppa (2.20); friend, rival and near twin of Elaine (2.10)

[Forgot Joey]

Katy: a go-between between Ray and Clara (2.3)

Marty: Lover of Inez Greenleaf (2.15).

Maureen: daughter of Ray and Clara (2.3); lover of Blackie (Pierre) (2.1);

Napoleon: (1.2); a “young black man involved in the movie business” (or maybe real estate) married to Clara (1.4); “handsome young black man” in real estate business (1.8); a black man –no mention of age– that looks like a bank manager (2.16); (historical figure mentioned (1.12); Doctor Napoleon — young black man– Ferlon Grevette (2.2); “young black man” in a suit (1.16).

Pierre: [missed some here]; is he Pierre? (2.25)

Ralph: friend of unnamed husband (1.1); married to Inez (2.13); friend of Ray’s (2.3); married to Inez, lover of Jenny (2.5); Ralph Greenleaf, dentist, married to his nurse receptionist Inez, with two kids, (later divorced, marries another nurse) (2.15);

Ray: “dim bulb” brother of Claire (2.13); uncle of Clara (1.4); unfaithful husband of Clara, father of Maureen, with mistress Janet (2.3); old man (1.7); witness to shooting outside diner (or shot himself?) (1.11); uncle of Claire (1.13); brother of Warren father of another Warren (1.15); brother of Warren (2.24); Claire’s husband who her sister married? The brother of Pierre? or of Warren? Are Ray and Pierre and Warren all brothers (2.17).

Red Head: [started at 1.8]; (1.8); (1.9); (2.16); with binder (1.16);

Warren: (1.3); old man (1.7); brother of Ray, son of Ray (1.15); brother of Ray (2.24); associated with Jenny (2.20); fiance of Claudia, brother of Janet, Uncle of Jack, son of unnamed (2.21); Claire’s husband who her sister married? The brother of Pierre? or of Warren? Are Ray and Pierre and Warren all brothers (2.25)

Famous: Meryl Streep (2.8); Groucho Marx (2.13); Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale (2.4); assorted Hollywood actors from the narrator’s youth (1.6); Meryl Streep (1.8); John Cusack (1.12); Irene Dunne (1.13); Mickie & Minnie (2.2); Clark Gable, Gregory Peck (2.19); James Cagney, Jack Carson (1.15); Charlie Parker an other bepop era Jazz figures (2.24); movie stars named (2.8); Freud, Jung, Adler, Ferenczi (2.25); Charlie Parker, Daredevils of the red circle (1.24); Snow white, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc. (2.25); Dick Tracy, Daredevils of the Red Circle (1.25); Moon Mullins, Dagwood (1.26).

OTHER
(mentions of literature, rape, Tarzan, Worchestershire
sauce, New York/ California, Alcohol/ Tobacco, etc.)

New York: Gerritsen Avenue (1.1); Nassau country, East Flatbush, Canarsie, Chinatown (2.18); Chelsea/ Williamsburg (1.2); diner in Bay Ridge (1.4); [Papa Joe’s, Our Lady of Perpetual Help] (2.4); Rego Park (2.3) (?); “The Alpine” (Bayridge?) (1.6); Gun Hill Road (1.7); “he should have met her back in New York” (2.5); Brooklyn, Manhattan, [“Parkcrest West” doesn’t seem to be a real NY location]; Coney Island and the Rockaways (1.9); Central Park (2.15); Daily News (1.11); (New York) Times (1.12) [?]; Union City (New Jersey) (2.1); Sunset Park (1.13); “New York Clothes”, Chelsea (2.2); Bronx, Rockefeller Center, Prometheus (1.14); Rockefeller Center, 5th and 6th Avenues, New Jersey (2.19); Sheepshead Bay (1.15); Rockefeller Center, 3 deuces (52nd between 5th and 6th), Father Duffy Square (2.24); “so close to the park” (1.16); Queens, Con Ed, Elmhurst, Coney Island, Scoville’s (2.9); Fritz’s bar and grill/ Papa Joe’s [?] (2.8); eighth street, the Village, (2.10); Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech. (2.21); Bohack’s (*); Rockefeller Center, Broadway, Vanderbilt Avenue, 42nd street (2.25); Rockefeller Center, 165 W. 46th Street, Three Deuces, Father Duffy Square, 49th street (1.24); list of nine NY neighborhoods which includes Sunset Park, Washington Heights, and Bay Ridge (2.25); The Alpine (Bay Ridge) (1.25); The Alpine, Holsten’s, White plains, Washington Heights, Yonkers (2.22); Whitehall street subway station, DeRosa funeral home (de Riso?)(1.26); same funeral home, Budd Lake (there are Budd Lakes both in NJ and CA)(1.26).

California: L.A. (1.2); San Francisco “land of heart’s desire” (2.13); Los Angeles, San Francisco (Baker, Dolores, Post streets, Capwell’s) (1.5); (2.5); Los Angeles (2.2); Marina del Rey (Los Angeles) (2.7); Riverside Drive, Bank Street (2.17); “In California it’s called copulation” (1.26).

Drinks: cheap whiskey (1.1); whiskey, 7 and 7, milk (2.18); white wine (1.2); “just a drink” (2.8); iced tea (1.3); margarita, vodka, whiskey sour (2.4); “was he still a drunk?” (1.5); “too much to drink at the salesman of the year party” (2.3); saloon that was now a mosque/ cheap booze (1.6); brandy stupor (2.12); (1.7); scotch and water, gin (2.5); coffee (2.11); cold beer (1.9); straight whiskey (2.16); (1.10); milk (2.23); “his alcoholism was prelude…” (1.12); coffee (2.1); half-drunk on New Year’s Eve (1.14); (2.19); (2.24); estelle and the con ed man (2.9); (1.17); tumblers of straight blended whiskey (2.20); Wilsons whiskey; J.W. Dant, draft beer, pink gin (2.10); bourbon, bourbon and water (2.7); “probably drunk, but she may be dead”, a quart cardboard container of beer (1.20); “stopped drinking the way she’d been drinking”, California Cabernet, Hennessey V.S.O.P, Rum baba, strong coffee (2.21); smell of whiskey (1.23); majorska vodka (Ok! soft drink) (1.22); “the fathers would sit with their beer and their whiskey” (2.25); Fleischmann’s (whiskey) and beer chaser, “Tarzan’s World” (2.22);

Cigarettes: chesterfields (2.18); Gitanes (1.2); “smoker of marijuana, hashish […]” (2.13); “can you, she said, lighting a cigarette, get a goddammed ash tray…” (2.4); (2.5); “smoking two fat joints of hash” (2.16); major theme of this chapter (2.2); unopened pack of Lucky Strikes (1.15); “You smoke like a fucking chimney” (2.24); (2.9); (2.20); Phillip Morris, Lucky Strikes (2.8); (2.10); (1.20); (1.21); (2.25); stopped smoking a month ago (2.25); Wings (1.24); Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields (2.25); (2.22).

Rape: (2.18); falsely alleged (2.13); and sodomy (2.11); and sodomy (2.16); attempted (dentist and patient) (2.15); and incest (1.13); mickey (1.17); maybe (2.25).

Pregnancy: (2.13); (1.4); (1.13); miscarried (1.15).

Family of three: (1.1); (2.18); (1.3); (2.3); (1.6); (2.12); (2.5); (1.8); (1.9); (2.23); (2.1); (1.13); (1.15); (2.9); (1.18); (2.8); (1.21); (2.21); (1.23); suggested (2.25); suggested (1.25); (2.22).

Bomba / Tarzan: (1.3); (1.5); (1.6); (1.8); (2.8); (1.22); among other named movie figures (2.25).

Writer: memoirist (1.2); (2.12); “his book” (1.8); gesturing with a ballpoint pen (2.11); (1.12); memoirist (2.2); redhead with black spring binder crammed with tattered pages (1.16); “writer bastard” (1.17); (2.10); (books) (1.21); (books) (2.21); (1.25); (2.22).

Letter/ note: (1.1);(1.3); (2.3); thinks about it (2.9); to grandpa (1.21).

Literary: Freud, Interpretation of Dreams (2.8; (1.3); Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1.4); “any book that was not what he considered serious” (1.5); carrying “a Great Book through the Mean Streets” (2.12); Pierre (1.8); The Sacred Fount (1.10); unspoken fantasies of the Pulitzer (1.12); Helen and Paris (1.13); Saroyan (1.14); Jung (2.19); “crudely literary” (2.24); Ulysses, Sacred Fount, Pierre, Confidence Man, The Plumed Serpent, Lorca …(2.10); Land of Heart’s Desire (2.13); Hardy’s collected poems and the The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Janet), Ficciones (Warren), In Cold Blood (Claudia) (2.21).

Worcestershire / Ketchup: Worcestershire (1.1); ketchup (2.11); Worcestershire and ketchup (2.23); Worcestershire (1.18); Worcestershire with what looks like a blood stain (1.20); (1.23).

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HAT BREAKDOWN

Borsalino: (1.7). Homburg: (1.1); (1.9); & “Adam hat” (2.19); stained (1.15); (1.19); (2.10); (1.23). Fedora: (1.1), (2.23). Watch cap: (1.8) (this is the same information, differently presented, as is in the ‘hats’ entry above.)

Looked into this recently, having gotten the idea I was doing it wrong (recycling). I am now not confident I am doing it right, maybe throwing away more than I was before, and more than I should, but I am giving this whole thing a more thorough review.

contamination and recycling: (*) (*) (*) no used tissues or paper towels, no pizza boxes, no frozen food boxes… a lot more poses a problem than I’d thought.

With glass recycling, food does not seem to be a contamination risk. (*,*) [more]