Pirate "pixilated" GR Part 1 Section 2

[jbor at bigpond.com]

on Page 13:
"... strips of white cotton knickers thus displayed, the undercurves of 
baby-fat little buttocks a blow to the Genital Brain, however 
pixilated. The tramp laughed and pointed, he looked back at Pirate then 
and said something extraordinary: "Eh? Girl Guides start pumping water 
. . . *your sound will be the sizzling night* . . . eh?" ..."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pixilated

Even when drunk, like the "buttonless and drooling derelict", this 
sight arouses the "Genital Brain". Thus the tramp's ogling, and the 
lecherous remark he makes to Pirate.

Nothing to do with pixels, pixellation, pixellated. Wrong spelling.

But the really interesting thing here is that Pirate dreamt these words 
*before* the tramp actually says them (i.e. he "had dreamed these very 
words, morning before last, just before waking"). In other words, the 
tramp emphasised those particular words, and spoke directly to Pirate, 
because he knew that Pirate had already dreamt them, which is what 
disturbed Pirate so much at the time. So, who's reading whose thoughts? 
And, in this anecdote is there an incidental observation by Pynchon 
about the correlation between this type of mental "disability" and 
homelessness?

Pirate's reaction to the tramp, along with the attitude behind his 
designation of "these horrid blacks" further down the page, aren't very 
flattering to him at all.

The biographical recount on 13-14 confirms the fact that Pirate's job 
in the army (i.e. with "The Firm") was as a Commando before his talent 
was discovered and he was reassigned to S.O.E.

Anyway ... it might be interesting to consider the etymology and 
metonymy of the term "The Firm", as Pynchon uses it here in GR. It's a 
colloquial reference to a company or corporation in the abstract, and 
it's most often used to refer to the company by people who are working 
for that company. There's a connotation of solidity, unity, loyalty. 
Here, I think Pynchon is using it more broadly to refer to a 
conglomeration of governments, armed services and corporations. It 
seems to me that it's meant as an allegory of capitalism.

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