LPPM MMV "That Bitch Considine"

[Dave Monroe]

"'Anyway,' she said, 'it's Brennan. Brennan and that
bitch Considine.'
   "And she went on to tell how apparently this female
economics expert named Debby Considine had returned a
week ago from an expedition to Ontario and right away
Paul Brennan had started chasing her again. There was
a tree outside her apartment house on P St. and
Brennan had climbed up this tree and waited for her to
collie out and whenever she did he would proclaim his
passion for her in loud and improvised blank verse.
Usually a small crowd would collect and finally one
night the cops came with ladders and hauled him down
and dragged him away.
   "'And who does he call to come down to the precinct
to bail him out,' Lucy said. 'Me, is who. Right before
payday too. The bastard still hasn't paid me back. And
to make matters worse he already had a record.
Krinkles Porcino, that's Paul's roommate, got engaged
to this girl Monica back around February. The two kids
were really in love, and Paul was fond of both of
them, so that when Sybil--she was living with David at
the time--started running after Krinkles and
threatening to break the thing up--well anyway she
finally threw this big bitch scene with Paul in the
lobby of the Mayflower and Paul ended up slugging her
with a vodka bottle he happened to be carrying, and
they got him for assault. And of course David had a
bad time of it because he hates to get involved in
anything, but Sam Fleischmann, who's hated Paul's guts
ever since Paul sold him $100 worth of phony uranium
stock, felt so sorry for David that he started writing
poison pen letters to Sybil, dumping all over Paul.
He'd write them in the morning right after we got up,
while I made breakfast, and we'd both laugh and laugh
because it was so much fun.' 
   "'Oh,' Siegel said, 'ha, ha.'" (MMV, pp. 6-7)


Thanks again to John Bailey ...

Note that female characters in this story are
frequently given only a first name, (Debby Considine
is the exception), while male characters are given a
surname or full name.

[...]

“Debby Considine” – consorting? As in, Deb-like
consorting? 
“Krinkles Porcino” – Krinkles seem to be some sort of
cookie, and porcini are a kind of mushroom. Unless
there’s a porcine reference in there somewhere, I
think that will do.
“Monica” – Now, we aren’t told too much about Monica,
seeing as how she’s just one of the bit-players in
Lucy’s convoluted saga. But I did notice that Lucy’s
tale ends with “The girl’s a saint”, and so
whimsically googling St Monica I found her to be the
mother of St. Augustine, and also an interesting
patron saint in her own right. She’s patron of sons &
husbands who’ve gone astray (her own husband being a
monster, and Augustine a self-confessed lazy little
pig for much of his life), and more specifically 
patron saint of: abuse victims, alcoholics, difficult
marriages, victims of adultery or unfaithfulness,
widows and more, though my favourite is ... Patron
Saint of Disappointing Children.
“Sybil” – In Greek myth, the sybil was a
prophet-figure (there’s also a tarot deck named after
her).
“Sam Fleischmann”  - “Meatman” or maybe “Fleshman”,
though it’s hardly a rare or unusual name.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0303&msg=77296

Okay, shortcutting here in the interests of getting on
with this thing, so ...


		
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