GRGR Part1 Section 2 Pirate Pirate Pirate

[Cometman]

Section 2 is about Pirate, Pirate, Pirate 

It occurs to me that Pirate, after a stunning buildup (yeah, I'd like
to know more about his adventures) fades out as Slothrop will do later
 
flipping thru the Penguin 

1) Page 10, Line 9 The "musaceous" smell of bananas pervades the whole
(Life-affirming counterpoint to the screaming in section 1?)
and the genus Musa is the botanical placement of the banana

2) Page 11, Line 25 "His batman, a Corporal Wayne" - of course!

3) 13, Line 1 - "the mark of Youthful Folly" - seems to refer to
something "growing out of his head" - a cowlick maybe? 

4) 12, Line 32 "a phantasmagoria, a real one" - this would be what?

5) 14, Line 7 - "H. A. Loaf" - better than none?

6) 14, line 17 - "blue baize fields" - 
 line 19 - "glyptic" - of or pertaining to gem engraving
blue baize could be a pool table - or the lining of a jewelry box (that
would fit better with "glyptic" - but what is a jewelry box doing in
Whitehall during a psych evaluation of an oneiric operative?  and what
is "the terrible paper gaming" in line 16?

Pirate's special skill and his lengthy Adenoid mission are as arcane
and silly as Slothrop's turn out to be...Is Pirate a Stage 1,
jettisoned as Slothrop begins to have his own narrative propulsion?

For me, Pirate and Slothrop are the forces of good, with their
whimsical missions, silly dreams, and fondness for inebriants such as
marijuana and fungus.  Their songs are comical, their relationships
friendly, their self-regard includes a measure of tolerance that spills
over onto the others with whom they associate.

they are the blissful counterstroke to Blicero and his
amphetamine-fueled windswept Rilke-quoting rocket madness.  Lacking
self-love, he relates by dominance, forcing others into his nightmare.

(aw well, may as well say it - hobbits vs Sauron)