AtDDtA1: The Hydrogen Skyship Inconvenience

[Dave Monroe]

   "It was amid such lively exclamation that the hydrogen airship
Inconvenience, its gondola draped with patriotic bunting [...]
ascended briskly into the morning, and soon caught the southerly
wind." (AtD, Pt. I, p. 3)


hydrogen airship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

http://www.bigredhair.com/airships/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airships_in_culture

http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship.html

Cf. ...

balloons

"on the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon
[golden-screwdriver dream]," 40; "a sturdy green balloon with a great
Z printed on it [Fergus' way of indicating consciousness]" 56; "The
sunburned face bobbed like a balloon," 65; "Up goes the balloon
[slang: war, action, etc. had begun]," 67; Yusef's love of, 67; "A
balloon-girl." 67; "Soon he was daydreaming again of balloons." 68;
"So the balloon's gone up," 232; "the balloon had gone up", 308; "slow
as a balloon," 329; "the most bouyant balloon-girl," 331;
"fire-balloon," 335; "gay balloon-lungs," 343; V. "handed swords,
balloons and colored handkerchiefs to Ugo Medichevole, a minor
magician," 388; "The jolly, jolly balloon [...] Going up" 434; "leery
like any Maltese of the Balloon's least bobbing," 448; 474; "Wasn't
she the same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch," 488;
See also Cher Ballon; hothouse

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


Inconvenience, The

3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in Mason and Dixon H.M.S.
Inconvenience was a ship that Fender-Belly Bodine once sailed in.

http://pynchonwiki.com/index.php?title=ATD-I

Inconvenience, H.M.S.

28; Bodine's ship

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/i.html

Inconvenience
Pynchon's fictional navy includes the USS Scaffold and the Susanna
Squaducci (V.), and the John E. Badass (GR). Chumps of Choice blog
notes that the British Royal Navy has a long tradition of warships
with names like Impulsive, Incendiary, Inconstant, Indignant, etc.
Impulsive is the name of the ship Ploy, who loses all his teeth in V.,
gets transferred to. Inconvenience is an apt name for the Chums'
adventures in 'reality'. They are an inconvenience; they are
inconvenienced. (In having to take on Chick Counterfly, for example).

Also, recall Fender-Belly Bodine, in Mason & Dixon: "Back on old
H.M.S. Inconvenience, we wasted many a Day and Night watching that
fancy Counter get smaller by the minute..." (p.28)

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3