Who promoted Major Marvy?

[RedBug]

Major Marvy did chase Slothrop through the Mittelwerke and was shooting at
him, I believe. Slothrop thought that in the chaos of the Zone there was
little to keep Marvy from doing terrible things to him, and Slothrop wasn't
going to stick around to find out.

I don't think Slothrop's paranoia re what Marvy might do would get Marvy
castrated in a court of law. But, as *they* say, he probably did something
somewhere to deserve it.

RedBug

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Penny Padgett wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For some reason, I've been thinking about Major Marvy a lot
> lately.  Perhaps it was the experience of taking my 6 month old
> Lab pup to be castrated; perhaps it was the recent remark on
> this list (by someone whose name I neglected to note, sorry!)
> that Major Marvy represents America.
> 
> Chalk this up to an insufficiently-rooted-out chauvinist
> reflex if you must, but ... What did Major Marvy do that was
> so bad?  Vulgar, loud-mouthed, bigoted to be sure.  Child-labor
> baron, overweight -- no problem.  But are any of these castratable
> offenses?  Who decided to do the deed, and why?  Is Marvy just
> a cheap-thrill, we-won-a-temporary-victory-over-Them kind of deal?
> 
> Penny
>