"The Loaf, the indispensible point of convergence upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is like the Soul, Emptiness."
— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Henry Holt Company
Date
1997
Metaphor
"The Loaf, the indispensible point of convergence upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is like the Soul, Emptiness."
Metaphor in Context
In fact, far from the Ogre or Troll his son makes him out to be, Charles, Sr. is a wistful and spiritual person. He believes that bread is alive,--that the yeast Animacula may unite in a single purposeful individual,--that each Loaf is so organized, with the crust for example, serving as skin or Carapace,-- the small cavities within exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale Walls, to appearance smooth, proving, upon magnification, to be made up of even smaller bubbles, and, one may presume, so forth, down to the Limits of the Invisible. The Loaf, the indispensible point of convergence upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is like the Soul, Emptiness.
(p. 204)
(p. 204)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Pynchon, Thomas. Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1997.
Date of Entry
11/08/2010
