Takeshi

[Dave Monroe]

--- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't there a sailor named Bodine in MD?

Bodine, Fender-Belly

21; Foretopman on Seahorse; 28; 55; 566; his "Bi-Lunar
Exhibition" at Ft. George, 570; Bodine's descendant,
Pig Bodine, in Gravity's Rainbow and V.

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/b.html#bodine

> 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.

"... 'Low-Lands' features the first appearance of Pig
Bodine, whom the story was originally supposed to be
about. Pynchon describes how Pig's character was
actually based upon an infamous member of the Navy at
the same time as Pynchon himself. In fact, Bodine's
abduction of Flange during the latter's wedding
reception was a true story the author heard from one
of his senior patrol members. Pynchon finally states
that it is because of these occurrences, among other
factors, that Pig Bodine has managed to show up again
in later novels."

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/slowlearner/lowlands.html

Bodine, Pig
14; AWOL former shipmate of Profane's on USS Scaffold;
voyeur, 17; looking for Paola, 129; 217; "The Green
Door. One night Dolores, Veronica, Justine, Sharon,
Cindy Lou, Geraldine and Irvine decide to hold an
orgy." 218; wants Paola, 221; 283; Whole Sick Crew
party, 287; 352; "life is the most precious possession
you have." (see also p. 12), 361; attempted rape of
Paola, 370; Pig also figures prominently in Gravity's
Rainbow; Pig's ancestor, Fender-Belly Bodine, shows up
in Mason & Dixon.

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/b.html#bodine

Bodine, Seaman
369; Doper's Dream; was on the Destroyer John E.
Badass docked in Cuxhaven; spikes coffee on Badass
with Oneirine, 389; First Int'l Runcible Spoon Fight,
394; "specializes in supporting roles" 684; My Doper's
Cadenza, 685; foam-rubber phalli, 708; "just a
freckleface kid from Albert Lea, Minnesota" 710;
Krupp, 711; "surprise roast" 714; "beginning. . .to
let Slothrop go" 741-42; "Pig" Bodine is also a major
character in V.; Pig's ancestor, Fender-Belly Bodine,
shows up in Mason & Dixon.

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html#bodine

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