LPPM MMV "Irving Loon"

[Dave Monroe]

"Beside the pig foetus there was only one other really
incongruous note in the whole scene: a swarthy looking
person in torn khakis and an old corduroy coat who
stood in one corner like some memento mori, withdrawn
and melancholy. 'That's Considine's latest,' Lucy
said, 'an Indian she brought back from Ontario. Boy,
what a hunk.'
   "'He looks sad,' Siegel said. Somebody handed
Siegel an ambiguous mixture in an old-fashioned glass
and he sipped it automatically, grimaced and set it
down. 'His name is Irving Loon,' she said dreamily.
   "'Irving what?' said Siegel.
   "'Loon. He's Ojibwa. Oh there's Paul. Talking to
Considine the bastard.'" (MMV, p. 7)


memento mori

Main Entry: me·men·to mo·ri 
Pronunciation: m&-'men-tO-'mOr-E, -'mor-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural memento mori
Etymology: Latin, remember that you must die
: a reminder of mortality; especially : DEATH's-head

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=memento+mori


Irving

Irving, of course, is one of those standard comedy
names, and it's no more comedic than when at the tail
end of a list of other names, e.g., "Gilligan's
Island"'s The Mosquitoes: Bingo, Bango, Bongo and
Irving (who, minus Bingo, were The Wellingtons, i.e.,
the vocal group singing "The Ballad of Gilligan's
Island" each and ev'ry episode) ...

http://www.gilligansisle.com/mosq.html

But it seems to loom particularly large in Pynchon's
own comedic legend.  Schoenmaker's nurse, "called, by
some associative freak, Irving" (p. 45).  But also, in
re: "a series of letters, more than 120 in all, that 
the famously reclusive author wrote to his former
agent, Candida Donadio, between 1963 and 1982" ...

"The letters also display flashes of Pynchon's baroque
wit. When Who's Who asked him to supply a biographical
note, the Times writes, Pynchon debated replying that
his parents were named Irving Pynchon and Guadalupe 
Ibarguengotia and that he was 'named Exotic Dancers
Man of the Year in 1957' and 'regional coordinator for
the March of Edsel Owners on Washington (MEOW) in
1961."

http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53620


Loon

Main Entry: loon
Function: noun
Etymology: of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse
lOmr loon
: any of several large birds (genus Gavia) of
Holarctic regions that feed on fish by diving and have
their legs placed far back under the body for optimal
locomotion underwater 

Main Entry: loon 
Pronunciation: 'lün
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English loun
1 : LOUT, IDLER
2 chiefly Scottish : BOY
3 a : a crazy person b : SIMPLETON 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


Ojibwa

Main Entry: Ojib·wa 
Variant(s): or Ojib·way  or Ojib·we  /O-'jib-(")wA/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural Ojibwa or Ojibwas or Ojibway
or Ojibways or Ojibwe or Ojibwes
Etymology: Ojibwa ocipwe., an Ojibwa band
1 : a member of an American Indian people of the
region around Lake Superior and westward
2 : an Algonquian language of the Ojibwa people

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

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.native-languages.org/chippewa.htm

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/O/Ojibwa.asp

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7862


"Marrone"

A la "marron," "pig"?  Let me know ...


		
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