SLSL Intro "Two Amiable Fuzzy Creatures"

[David Morris]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>    "Attentive fans of Shakespeare will notice that the
> name Porpentine is lifted from Hamlet, I, v.  It is an
> early form of 'porcupine.'  The name Moldweorp is Old
> Teutonic for 'mole'--the animal, not the infiltrator. 
> I thought it would be a cute idea for people named
> after two amiable fuzzy critters to be duking it out
> over the fate of Europe." (SL, "Intro," pp. 19-20)
> 
> I just wanted an editorial cartoon, but ...

... but your links focus on bears and eagles.  The animals Pynchon chooses are
moles and porcupines.  But again he sends us to the universal translator.  Are
moles and porcupines "two amiable fuzzy critters" [to be duking it out over the
fate of Europporcupine   Is a pocupine amiable and fuzzy?  A recent toilet
paper TV ad depicted a porcupine trying to convince a woman that he was soft
and cuddly.  She, objecting, wanted back the Charmin toilet paper cuddly bear
back.

David Morris

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