LPPM MMV "The Girl Bohemian of the '40's"

[Dave Monroe]

"... the girl, who was very young and had long black
hair and big hoop earrings and was wearing a
sweatshirt and levis--who seemed to Siegel a perfect
parody of the girl bohemian of the '40's--stood up and
looked at Siegel. 'I want to go to bed with you,' she
intoned dramatically and all at once Siegel cheered
up. He put the receiver back on the hook and smiled.
'I'm sorry,' he said suavely, 'but statutory rape and
all that, you know. Can I get you a drink?'"

[...]

"'By the way,' she said, 'I'm Lucy.'" (MMV, p. 4)


"the girl bohemian of the '40's"

Main Entry: Bo·he·mi·an 
Pronunciation: -mE-&n
Function: noun
1 a : a native or inhabitant of Bohemia b : the group
of Czech dialects used in Bohemia
2 often not capitalized a : VAGABOND, WANDERER;
especially : GYPSY b : a person (as a writer or an
artist) living an unconventional life usually in a
colony with others
- bohemian adjective, often capitalized

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=bohemian

Not, e.g., ...

http://www.laurelandhardycentral.com/tbg.htm

http://opera.stanford.edu/Puccini/LaBoheme/main.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~markdlew/lib/bohgirl/index.htm

http://www.willacather.org/TrollGarden/TheBohemianGirl.htm

... but, e.g., ...

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Bohemianism

... but can anyone think of a good example, or,
rather, a good exemplar, of what Pynchon is getting at
here?  Thanks ...


"I'm Lucy"

LUCY   f
Usage: English
Pronounced: LOO-see
English feminine form of LUCIUS

LUCIUS   m
Usage: Ancient Roman, English
Pronounced: LOO-shus
Roman praenomen, or given name, which was derived from
Latin lux "light"....

http://www.behindthename.com/nm/l3.html

Saint Lucy
Feastday: December 13
Patron of Blindness 

Lucy's name means "light", with the same root as
"lucid" which means "clear, radiant, understandable."
Unfortunately for us, Lucy's history does not match
her name. Shrouded in the darkness of time, all we
really know for certain is that this brave woman who
lived in Syracuse lost her life in the persecution of
Christians in the early fourth century....

Her mother tried to arrange a marriage for her with a
pagan. Lucy apparently knew that her mother would not
be convinced by a young girl's vow so she devised a
plan to convince her mother that Christ was a much
more powerful partner for life. Through prayers at the
tomb of Saint Agatha, her mother's long illness was
cured miraculously. The grateful mother was now ready
to listen to Lucy's desire to give her money to the
poor and commit her life to God. 

Unfortunately ... the rejected bridegroom did not see
the same light and he betrayed Lucy to the governor as
a Christian. This governor tried to send her into
prostitution but the guards who came to take her way
found her stiff and heavy as a mountain. Finally she
was killed.... 

Lucy's name is probably also connected to statues of
Lucy holding a dish with two eyes on it. This refers
to another legend in which Lucy's eyes were put out by
Diocletian as part of his torture. The legend
concludes with God restoring Lucy's eyes. 

Lucy's name also played a large part in naming Lucy as
a patron saint of the blind and those with
eye-trouble. 

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=75

And see also, e.g., ...

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/aelfric/lucy.html


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