VV(18): Porcepic

[Dave Monroe]

"Itague grew excited, describing L'Enlevement des
Vierges Chinoises--Rape of the Chinese Virgins.  It
was to be Satin's finest ballet, the greatest music of
Vladimir Porcepic." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 396)

And Vladimir Porcepic = Igor Stravinsky rounds out
Pynchon's little parody of Le Sacre du Printemps.  But
note also ...

"porcepic" = porcupine

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/francais/porcepic.htm

http://www.csaffluents.qc.ca/animalier/Porcepic.htm

... a la Porpentine, which Pynchon hisself (see the
"Introduction" to Slow Learner, p. 19) cites a source
for ...

"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars,
   start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand an end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet I.v.19-25.  The speaker
here is the Ghost of Hamlet's Father, on whom, see ...

Greenblatt, Stephen.  Hamlet in Purgatory.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2001.

But I digress ... note also that ...

"porc-epic" = pig epic

And we all know about Pynchon 'n' pigs.  Which brings
us to ...

"porcepic" = Porky Pig

And that's all, foax ... at least until I can complete
my own little epics on fetishism, orientalism, and the
premiere performance of Igor Stravinsky's Le Scare du
printemps later today ...




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