Takeshi
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 10:13:14 CDT 2006
Isn't there a sailor named Bodine in MD? And in a short story from Slow
Learner?
I think Pynchon just likes to name sailors Bodine as an inside joke, though
I did think that the GR and V guys were the same.
On 9/20/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The GR Bodine is basically a decent,
> >kind guy - one of the few heroes in GR, in fact - whereas the Bodine of
> V.
> >is an unsympathetic slob. Whatever happened to Bodine between WWII and
> >1956? Why has he grown MORE immature? Where is his kindness? Still, noone
> >would argue that they're not in fact the same character.
>
> Well put. That was the question I was asking myself. In GR Bodine seem to
> have matured together with his creator, whereas chronologically his
> 'degradation' is a bit preternatural.
>
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