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187.41
(Agnes Dei) She was reciting a limerick about Titian which ended, —climbed up the ladder and had ’er, to rhyme with rose madder.
NOTE:
The full Limerick goes,
While Titian was mixing rose-madder His model posed nude on a ladder. Her position, to Titian, Suggested coition, So he climbed up the ladder and had 'er.
450.38
—But no, I mean, I don’t know. Sometimes I do, sometimes I almost do, and then I lose it. Like a story I heard once, a friend of mine told me, somebody I used to know, a story about a forged painting. It was a forged Titian that somebody had painted over another old painting, when they scraped the forged Titian away they found some worthless old painting underneath it, the forger had used it because it was an old canvas. But then there was something under that worthless painting, and they scraped it off and underneath that they found a Titian, a real Titian that had been there all the time. It was as though when the forger was working, and he didn’t know the original was underneath, I mean he didn’t know he knew it, but it knew, I mean something knew. I mean, do you see what I mean? That underneath that the original is there, that the real . . . thing is there, and on the surface you . . . if you can only . . . see what I mean?
NOTE: This was a real story that Gaddis read about in a newspaper when the Recognitions was already at the printer. He immediately stopped the presses to incorporate it into the story.
162.24-163.13
Quién limpian mi cuarto mañana?
Yo
Hay visto una manuscripta aquí?
Que dijo?
La manuscripta de mi playa
Qué dijo de playa?
El está para mi máquina...esta mañana
Perdido....si perdido...que cosa?
Papel. Papel que yo escribo mi playa al máquina...mi playa.
Es muy misterioso...sí...muy misterioso
Titulito The vanity of Time
No entiendo
The Vanity of time...La vanidad del Tiemplo...una..una por escribo
Un lapiz, señor?
*writes The Vanity of Time*
Aie...per sí, sí señor....Aquí está...Lo pusé aquí cuando empacaba, todo estaba tan revuelto que tuve miedo de que se perdiera, o se ensuciara...
Gracias, gracias señoritas.
Nada, de nada senor.
*The miscommunication comes from Otto's completely horrendous Spanish. Many of the verbs are misconjugated. "Playa" means "beach." Manuscripta is not a word. Templo should be "tiempo." Here is what was said, were Otto to have spoken correctly:
Who cleaned my room this morning?
Me.
Did you see a manuscript here?
What did he say?
The manuscript, of my play.
What did he say about the beach?
It's for my typewriter...this morning
Lost? Yes, something lost..this morning...
Paper. Paper that I write my play on. My play.
This is very mysterious, yes very mysterious.
Title: The vanity of time
I don't understand
The vanity of time...Vanidad el Tiemplo...its for...it's for writing
A pencil, senor?
*Writes, The Vanity of Time*
Ay! Yes, yes, sir. Here it is. I put it here when I was packing. Everything was so unraveled that I was afraid it would get lost, or dirty.
Thank you. Thank you, ladies.
Your welcome, sir.
165.39
La limpia
Clean it?
166.11
Una limosnita, por el amor de Dios
A small gift, for the love of God
166.17
Dios se lo pague
May God repay you
311.24
puerorum amator et sodomita fuit
a lover of children, sodomy.
From Saltus's description of the corruption of the Renaissance papacy, particularly in regards to the granting of indulgences.
