MDDM 18: The Veery Brothers

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Well, well, well, Inspector- I thought I was the only one who caught sight
of this bird- quite surprising! Nothing like The Tailor's tailor to help
straighten out the warp and woof, and keep that Rebel Weaver in check.
A thrush by any other name? Aye, and don't forget about a certain 
ghostly St. Bernard with a taste for punch and punchlines. Probably
a continental pal of the LED, given their common predilections- not 
to mention the gift of Gab... Neil always seemed to top The Topper.
I guess being a dog AND a ghost has it's advantages. Topper was cool,
though, never lost his head.

I can't believe this whole t.v. thread woven into the text at this
point. Typical of Pynchon, though, this being even closer, at least
temporally, to "Vineland." And, Cosmo and Damian are in the 
entertainment biz, after all. Is he saying that entertainment
i.e., The Veery Bros, i.e., t.v., Hollywood, maybe even 
novelists are potentially subversive? A counterforce? Never 
know what secret messages are being coded into those 
entertainments, I guess. Reminds me a little of... (Anyone 
remember what THRUSH stood for?)

      http://www.dryden.co.uk/spies/waverly.htm
 

In a message dated 1/21/02 12:11:45 PM, davidmmonroe at yahoo.com writes:

<< Veery (?), n. (Zoöl.) An American thrush (Turdus
fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and
Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is
pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also
Wilson's thrush.

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=Veery

Main Entry: vee ry 
Pronunciation: 'vir-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural veeries
Etymology: probably imitative
Date: 1838
: a thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the eastern
U.S.