AtDDtA(15): F.I.C.O.T.T.

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Dave Monroe reiterated:
>
> On 8/8/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > "the McTaggarite, the neo-Augustinian, and the fatal steamed pudding"
> >
> > what's that one near the beginning of Mason & Dixon?
> >
> > and in V., the sock tucker, the cork soaker & the coke sacker?
>
> Any help would be appreciated ...
> 

just to line it up -- you're interested in 
1) instances of the 3-party joke in Pynchon
2) possible diffusions of meaning in each vis-a-vis its surrounding text
3) possible intertextual references and byplay, including
   what meaning(s) this latest link in the signifying chain might be
   hinting at

4) to which I'd add - will anyone knowing the full joke that
begins, "Well.  There's this Jesuit, this Corsican, and this
Chinaman, and they're all riding in a great Cooach, going up
to Bath...? and the fourth Passenger is a very proper 
Englishwoman, who keeps giving them these scandaliz'd Glances...?
Finally, able to bear it no longer, the Corsican, being the
most hot-headed of the three, bursts out, and here I hope
You will excuse my Corsican Accent, he says, "'Ey! Lady! 
Whatta Ye lookin' ah'?" And she says..." please supply the
missing bits?