On being pricked!

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

Pissant Steely discharges:

>A prick? Of the Peter Pinquid or Pierce Inverarity variety?

>Actually, I prefer comparisons to Pig Bodine, the Dennis Rod-man
>of the Pynchon oeuvre.

>Pig's idea, as I understand it, is to piss on pretension. Now, Pig's got
>big pants to fill, but I try. 

     Tumescent Steely.  Outed Steely.  (Unsheathed, as it were?)  Now, it's 
     pissing, pricking Steely.  The mind reels with these penetrating 
     incarnations--but, Steely, hey, Steely, before you leave for the those 
     upright redwoods, why all the dicking around?  Isn't the moniker a 
     trout mask replica?
     
     Chris