MDMD(5): B O N K!

[Richard Romeo]

and what a perfect name for a defenseman, eh?

rich (1/4 century rangers fan..yes, lots of suffering)

p.s. also think of that star trek episode where a planet has only kids left 
after some horrible disease killed off all the older folk--kids like to 
scream bonk!  bonk-bonk!


>From: "no fun" <jbridel1 at home.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: MDMD(5): B O N K!
>Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:58:32 -0400
>
>Raedek Bonk is a forward on the Ottawa Senators (an NHL team for those
>living in darkness without hockey, which remains important despite, indeed
>perhaps because of the horrors of the world).
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:38 PM
>Subject: MDMD(5): B O N K!
>
>
> > B O N K !
> >
> > Funny thing: I thought no such name existed or exists at the Cape.  Once
> > again, me being wrong.  Bonk was, and continues to be an actual name
> > indeed.
> >
> > The word 'bonk' as a substantive, even now, means in Dutch a physically
> > strong person. Imagine Captain Haddock in the Tintin comics, he's a real
> > 'bonk'.  A 'zeebonk' is a more or less normal expression for a seaman.
> > (The word is also used to describe the noise a thing makes, when falling
> > on the ground.)  It has none of the sexual connotations some slang might
> > provide. (on the other hand: a gay friend of mine uses it when referring
> > to attractive men).  Anyway, it expresses force.  And that is how Mason
> > and Dixon get in touch with the V.O.C.: a brutal and rude man sets out
> > the rules.
> >
> > Bonk says about Africa that the continent has as 'little mercy as the
> > Sea to your backs' and, once lost, there's no 'hope of Salvation'.
> > There is nothing left but to ply to the V.O.C.'s rules.  The System, or
> > They, take over.
> >
> > In a frivolous kind of way, Mason explains why they are here.  He does
> > this in exactly the wrong tone.  He will be put in a file at the Castle
> > (the fortification built by slaves in 1666, the year of the London Great
> > Fire by the way), as will be Dixon, however 'harmless' (59.33) he may be
> > seem.  It is all, according to Bonk, 'English Whiggery'.
> >
> > Declaring 'the movements of Heav'ns which taken together form a cryptick
> > message' is of course exactly the wrong thing to say.  It creates
> > immediately a boundary (this chapter being full of boundaries, on which
> > later more) between the system, whose ideology was a kind of religious
> > fundamentalism, in order to live the strange kind of life the settlers
> > lived.  It is all right to say such a thing among enlightened British
> > scientists, and may be considered a definition of Deism --which I've
> > always seen as a polite word for atheism-- but not the right expression
> > to be used when at the Cape.
> >
> >
> >
>


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