VLVL2 (15): Roy Ibble

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Thu May 13 09:58:17 CDT 2004


Ah, thank you.  I vaguely recalled that it wasn't
QUITE "ibble," but never got 'round to confirming ... 

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> schrieb:
> > 
> > >From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> > >
> > >Roy Ibble
> > 
> > Wasn't this the sound that the cook at the
> > Poconos resort in "V" made for his imaginary
> > machine gun? 
> 
> Hey Gotcha, good memory, it's right at the
> beginning:
> 
> "His chief was one Da Conho, a mad Brazilian who
> wanted to go fighting Arabs in Israel. (...) During
> the weeks that followed, when the head chief was
> looking the other way, Da Conho would assemble his
> machine gun, camouflage it with iceberg lettuce,
> watercress and Belgian endive, and mock-strafe the
> guests assembled in the dining room. 'Yibble,
> yibble, yibble,' he would go, squinting malevolent
> along the sights, 'got you dead center, Abdul Sayid.
> Yibble, yibble, Muslim pig.' Da Conho's machine
> gun was the only one in the world that went yibble
> yibble." (22f)


	
		
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