MDMD Cherrycoke

[Paul Mackin]

Le and de are French sounding, but spark and pugh are English words.. DePugh
would be a good name for a clerical gentlemen. Pugh or pew when not used as
an exclamation are not uncommon last names in the U.S. Then there was Blind
Pew in Stevenson's Treasure Island. He walked with a cane in front of him
going tap tap tap.

        P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: MDMD Cherrycoke


>
>
> John Bailey wrote:
> >
> > DePugh and Dupont: possibility I guess. As for LeSpark, excuse my
ignorance
> > but can any elaborate on the French-sounding names of both LeSpark and
> > DePugh? Does that indicate something about the family? Am I meant to
realise
> > something I don't when I read those names? I would have assumed an
English
> > background to these families, though I don't know why. Not that Spark is
a
> > French word. But then neither is Cherrycoke. Unless it is an Anglocised
> > version of something like Cheriecoq, or Pretty Rooster. And he does crow
> > like a rooster, that's for sure, though I'd never thought of him as
pretty,
> > but whatever floats ya boat.
>
> Well, who knows,  there is Cherrycoke in GR, not exactly a reverend,
> more a mystic, but the Reverends in GR, two I can think of, are both
> Catholics. Rev. Cherrycoke's initials are R.C. If they, Le Spark, DePugh
> are French, they are probably Catholics. Who else would name a daughter
> Tenebrae?
>