GRGR 1,2 oddments

[Cometman]

p11, line 34
"they are making believe to be narodnik"
according to the Companion, I think a narodnik was a revolutionary
agitator trying to radicalize the proletariat

-- 
Pirate's career 
The Adenoid story could be an iridescent hallucinatory bubble floated
over some colder facts: 
"Lord Blatherard Osmo was discovered mysteriously suffocated....Some
have seen in this the hand of the Firm" (p16, lines 31-33)

Pirate works for the Firm.  Maybe this is how he's chosen to remember
"The Osmo Affair" which episode could have involved Osmo being a double
agent with Pirate witnessing and/or enabling Osmo's cocaine habit, and
finally killing him and/or witnessing/failing to prevent his death.

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p16, line 5 - "daily demarche"
not familiar with this term, I Clusty'd it (Clusty being a clustering
search engine)
and got
dé·marche 1) A course of action; a maneuver. 2) A diplomatic
representation or protest 3) A statement or protest addressed by
citizens to public authorities.
(this definition is on a blog called "the daily demarche"; the
self-description on the blog reads "A blog by members of the State
Department Republican Underground- conservative Foreign Service
Officers serving overseas commenting on foreign policy and global
reactions to America" -- busman's holiday: don't they get enough of
that sort of thing at work?  the great game goes on)
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the other friends at the Banana Breakfast
I flashed on the notion of "First Breakfast" vs "Last Supper" but only
count 7:
1) Bartley Gobbitch  -- "garbage"?
2) DeCoverley Pox
3) Maurice "Saxophone" Reed
4) Teddy Bloat
5) Joaquin Stick
6) Pirate Prentice 
7) Osbie Feel
(anonymous others)

here's a search result for "Snipe and Shaft" (the intaglio inscription
on the purloined pub sign Bloat's using for a cutting board)

http://mediajunkie.com/jack/backtalk.cgi?entry_id=6369

"*V9.14-19 Bartley Gobbitch, DeCoverley Pox . . . SNIPE AND SHAFT,
Teddy Bloat
"Gobbitch" comes from the archaic word "gobbet," which Webster's New
World Dictionary defines as "a fragment or bit, especially of raw
flesh." The names "Pox" and "Bloat" are obvious enough, but
"DeCoverley" comes from Sir Roger Decoverley, the prototypical country
squire created by Addison and Steele for the Spectator and named in
turn for a country reel dance. Overall, the names suggest another
version of the "Whole Sick Crew" of Pynchon's V. "Snipe" (backbite,
take potshots) and "shaft" (undercut, screw over) are what these men
are presumably assigned to do to others in their various bureaucratic
jobs and what they do in conversations at the eponymous pub."

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I had posted something about "Bloat's nervous hand" on the "great
isosceles knife" but on rereading, the phrase is actually
"knife, from beneath whose nervous blade" (p9, line 20-21)
The knife itself is nervous,
and of course we know from V that inanimate objects do have feelings.
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One more puzzling image:
p9, lines 36-37
Elsewhere in the maisonette, other drinking companions disentangle from
blankets (one spilling wind from his, dreaming of a parachute)

Is this a fart reference?