MDMD2: The Learned English Dog

[David Payne]

There's also the pun, later in M&D (ch. 39, p. 396): Dixon beams and waves at them. "Are all Virginian Ladies as merrily dispos'd?" "Ev'rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,--indeed, the Sailors' Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is 'No-Fuck.' " 

> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:59:47 -0600> From: against.the.dave at gmail.com> To: pynchon-l at waste.org> Subject: Re: MDMD2: The Learned English Dog> > "All at once, out of the Murk, a dozen mirror'd Lanthorns have leapt> alight together, as into their Glare now strolls a somewhat dishevel'd> Norfolk Terrier ..." (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 18)> > > Winky here is a Norfolk Terrier ...> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI> > http://bestinshowonline.warnerbros.com/> > http://imdb.com/title/tt0218839/> > > Cf. ...> > "Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede> jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk,> Virginia." (V., Ch.1, p. 1)> > "'Here, I'll even lend you this Norfolk jacket....'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 184)> > "In 1956, in Norfolk, Virginia, I had wandered into a bookstore and> discovered issue one of the Evergreen Review, then an early forum for> Beat sensibility. It was an eye-opener...." (SL, "Intro," p. 8)> > http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72460> > "a stout gentleman in a Norfolk jacket ..." (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 13)> > And see as well, e.g., ...> > http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60179> > http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60297
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