AtDDtA1: Darby Suckling

Mon Jan 22 15:42:18 CST 2007

  "'Oh, boy!' cried Darby Suckling [...] his tow-colored locks
streaming in the wind past the gondola like a banner to leeward
(Darby, as my faithful readers will remember, was the 'baby' of the
crew, and served as both factotum and mascotte, singing as well the
difficult treble parts whenever these adolescent aeronauts found it
impossible to contain song of some kind.)" (AtD, Pt. I, pp. 3-4)

Darby

DARBY
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English

Pronounced: DAHR-bee
>From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "deer
town" in Old Norse.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=darby

Darby - from the word meaning "free."

http://web.ncf.ca/bj333/HomePage.boys.html

Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (A.K.A. Bobby Pyn) (September 26,
1958 – December 7, 1980) was a punk musician who cofounded (with long
time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs.

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

Suckling

Main Entry: suck·ling
Pronunciation: 's&-kli[ng]
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English suklyng, from suken to suck
: a young unweaned animal

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Suck Hour

13; the hour in the Sailor's Grave bar when the boys get to suck the
tit-shaped beer taps;

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/s.html

Gross Suckling Conference

706; attended by Eventyr, Gwinhidwy, Mexico, Morituri - discuss
mandalas in relation to rocket firings

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/g.html

"The dearest nation of all is one that will survive no longer than you
and I, a common movement at the mercy of death and time: the ad hoc
adventure. --Resolutions of the Gross Suckling Conference" (GR, Pt.
IV, p. 706)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/counterforce.html

"The Gross Suckling. Swaying full-color picture of a loathsomely fat
drooling infant. In one puddinglike fist the Gross Suckling clutches a
dripping hamhock (sorry pigs, nothing personal)" (GR, Pt. IV, p. 707)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/pigs.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/707.htm

Remember, in his Tarot, despite being covered by mediocrity and a long
and scuffling future, it is at the point of secret hopes & fears where
the Hanged Man is reversed. In the Celtic Cross spread, hopes & fears
is the second-to-last point, step, or indicator. The "World" is the
final position. We are not told what card appeared here but may well
assume, with a Pynchonesque smile, the card to be the 23rd card of the
Major Arcanum, the  Gross Suckling   !! He fears preterition, commerce
and false prophecy; yet hopes for true sacrifice, the proper cause.
That the  Gross Suckling   should be awaiting Slothrop at the point of
the world (this World or the Other World?!), and what this actually
might signify (genetical mutation?) is a matter for future conferees
seeking evidence and having insight to determine. [706-7, 738]

http://www.www.ottosell.de/pynchon/horos6.htm

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/

Sir John Suckling (February 10, 1609 – June 1, 1642) was an English
Cavalier poet whose best known poem may be "Ballad Upon a Wedding".

[...]

He was elected as member for Bramber for the opening session (1640) of
the Long Parliament; and in that winter he drew up a letter addressed
to Henry Jermyn, afterwards earl of St Albans, advising the king to
disconcert the opposition leaders by making more concessions than they
asked for. In May of the following year he was implicated in an
attempt to rescue Strafford ( Thomas_Wentworth, 1st Earl of
Strafford?) from the Tower and to bring in French troops to the king's
aid. The plot was exposed by the evidence of Colonel George Goring,
and Suckling fled beyond the seas. The circumstances of his short
exile are obscure. He was certainly in Paris in the summer of 1641.
One pamphlet related a story of his elopement with a lady to Spain,
where he fell into the hands of the Inquisition. The manner of his
death is uncertain, but Aubrey's statement that he put an end to his
life by poison in May or June 1642 in fear of poverty is generally
accepted.

Suckling's reputation as a poet depends on his minor pieces. they have
wit and fancy, and at times exquisite felicity of expression. "Easy,
natural Suckling," Millamant's comment in Congreve's The Way of the
World (Act iv., sc. i.) is a just tribute to their spontaneous
quality....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suckling_(poet)

I. Cavalier Lyrists.

§ 10. Sir John Suckling.

http://www.bartleby.com/217/0110.html

Sir John Suckling
Born: 1609
Birthplace: Whitton, Middlesex, England
Died: 1642
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified

http://www.nndb.com/people/257/000097963/

ACC Hall of Fame
Sir John Suckling
Norfolk County, England
1609 - 1642

http://www.cribbage.org/hof/member.asp?hof_id=1

Selected Poetry of Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/316.html

Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)
Sir John Suckling, 1632-1641
oil on canvas
85 1/4 in. x 51 1/4 in. (216.54 cm x 130.18 cm)
Henry Clay Frick Bequest.
Accession number: 1918.1.44

http://collections.frick.org/4DACTION/HANDLECGI/CTN2$53734?display=por

http://www.shopfrick.org/assets/images/shop/cards/postcards/suckling.jpg

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642), Poet
Sitter in 5 portraits
'The greatest gallant of his time, and the greatest gamester'; the
inventor of cribbage. Suckling, an ardent Royalist, was forced to flee
the country in the Civil War, and died in poverty in Paris, probably
from taking poison. He wrote plays, notable for their convoluted
plots, as well as some memorable lyrics, of which the best known is
'Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp04363

tow-colored

Main Entry: tow
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tow- spinning; akin to Old
Norse tO tuft of wool for spinning, Old English tawian to prepare for
use -- more at TAW
1 : short or broken fiber (as of flax, hemp, or synthetic material)
that is used especially for yarn, twine, or stuffing
2 a : yarn or cloth made of tow b : a loose essentially untwisted
strand of synthetic fibers

leeward

Main Entry: leeward
Function: adjective
: being in or facing the direction toward which the wind is blowing;
also : being the side opposite the windward

factotum

Main Entry: fac·to·tum
Pronunciation: fak-'tO-t&m
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, literally, do everything, from Latin fac
(imperative of facere do) + totum everything
1 : a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities
2 : a general servant

mascotte

Main Entry: mas·cot
Pronunciation: 'mas-"kät also -k&t
Function: noun
Etymology: French mascotte, from Occitan mascoto, from masco witch,
from Medieval Latin masca
: a person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbolic figure
especially to bring them good luck <the team had a mountain lion as
their mascot>

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

mascotte
The English word 'mascot' has its origin in the late 19th cent.: from
French mascotte. The spelling may also be a tribute to the Dutch brand
of rolling papers.

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

Mascotte (rolling papers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascotte_%28rolling_papers%29

Mascotte no 525 papers are the biggest brand of rolling papers in
Holland, which in turn is by far the biggest market for roll-your-own.
 With a market share of 60%, Mascotte are the biggest brand on the
continent....

http://www.rollingpapers.net/Mascotte/Mascotte.htm

Mascotte Gommé

http://www.mascotte.nl/