LPPM MMV "Beavers"

[Dave Monroe]

"'As far as the eye can reach--' he gestured
dramatically-- 'Beavers. Succulent, juicy, fat.'
   "'How yummy,' Grossmann had commented wryly." (MMV,
p. 8)


"Beavers"

Cf. ...

"In his suddenly amiable state it seemed to Siegel
that this account of the young fellow named Cheever
who had an affair with a beaver took on Deeper Human
Significance ...." (MMV, p. 4)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0408&msg=92463

Beaver, "Old" Jeremy the
36; 121; boyfriend of Jessica Swanlake; works for
Operation Backfire in Cuxhaven; is the War, 177; meets
Mexico at Gross Suckling Conference, 709

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html

Kastoranthropy
619; Greek: "kastor" = "beaver"; the combination of a
human being and a beaver
Kastormorphism
620 Greek: "kastor" = "beaver"; changing into a beaver

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/k.html

And see as well ...

Herman Moll, "A New and Exact Map of the Dominion of
the King of Great Britain and Ye Continent of North
America" (1715), a.k.a. the "Beaver Map" ...

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit2/31.jpg

http://www.themaphouse.com/amercat/usa5935.html

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Marston/maps/map3.html

http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1715m6.jpg

http://libraries.uta.edu/txmapsociety/Neatline/NL32FeaMap.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3300+ct000232))

http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_dc/oai:lcoa1:loc.gmd/g3300.ct000232

http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1731bowlesmoll.jpg

Note esp. the inset, "The CATARACT of Niagara," "A
View of ye Industry of ye Beavers of Canada in making
Dams to stop ye Course of a Rivulet ..." ...  

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit2/31b.jpg

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68623

My favorite diorama title at The Milwaukee Public
Museum, by the way: "The Quest for Beaver." 
Succulent, juicy, fat ...


		
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