GRGR 1,1: Pirate's Ascent/Desent

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net>
>
>Entropy is the basis of evolution. It is the cause of variation in 
>otherwise perfectly transmitted genetic messages, which are then  
>"selected" by the "context" of the environment. In the garden, in concert 
>with the molecular basis of life, entropy causes the natural production of 
>waste that will be transformed into fecundity, the conjuror's secret, as it 
>were.

This, above, is very nice!

>As someone else pointed out on the list, long ago, Pirate is a 'Prentice 
>conjuror (Gilbert & Sullivan- Pirates of Penzance).

But that is incorrect, I think.  This from the archives:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9609&msg=6681&sort=date

The name "Pirate Prentice" is, of course, a name appropriated (like "Geli
Tripping") from Gilbert & Sullivan.  In THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, the hero
suffers a woeful fate.  His nurse, when he was a little boy, was told to
apprentice him to "a pilot," but being "somewhat hard of hearing," she
apprenticed him to "a pirate."

Hence, he's a "pirate 'prentice."

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