VV(11): Fugue Your Buddy

[jporter]

> From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
> Organization: Milwaukee Public Museum
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 05:01:26 -0600
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: VV(11): Fugue Your Buddy
> 
> "Fugue Your Buddy" (V. Ch. 8, Sec. iii, p. 223)
> 
> From the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary Online ...
> 
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
> 
> Main Entry: fugue
> Pronunciation: 'fyüg
> Function: noun
> Etymology: probably from Italian fuga flight, fugue, from Latin, flight,
> from fugere
> Date: 1597
> 1 a : a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or
> imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in
> a continuous interweaving of the voice parts b : something that
> resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements 2 : a
> disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to
> perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the
> deeds.
> - fugue verb
> - fugu·ist /'fyü-gist/ noun
> 
> Our fuguists ...
> 
> "The next night Pig Bodine showed up at Rachel's at supper time
> drunk and in search of Paola, who was away God knew where.
> "'Hey,' Pig addressed Profane.
> "'Buddy,' Profane said.  They opened beer." (pp. 222-3)
> 
> And their fugue ...
> 
> "Rachel sat and concentrated on the music while Pig and Profame
> remembered sea stories at each other." (p. 223)
> 
> [...]
> 
> "Rachel returned to Pig and Profane.  They were discussing Pappy Hod and
> Paola.  Damn, damn, to herself, what have I brought him back to?  What
> have I brought him back to?" (ibid.)
> 
> Then back to ...

Annan Says Taliban Confirmed Destruction of Statues

(One can only imagine the smile playing across the lips of the sublime
Buddha.)

jody