AtDDtA1: Darby Suckling
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 28 15:05:34 CST 2007
Especially with what he becomes in the book...a cynical lawyer.
Joseph Hutchison <joe at jhwriter.com> wrote: Speaking of Darby...one more idea concerning Darby Sucklings name: an online Dictionary of Thieving Slang lists Darby as meaning ready money (http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/D/DARBY.html), but the plural Darbies as meaning irons, shackles or fetters (http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/D/DARBIES.html). The latter meaning was applied by Melville in title of the poem that ends his short novel Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), Billy in the Darbies. There might be correspondences between Billy Budds story and AtD, but I havent looked into the possibilities. At any rate, it seems to me that the conflation of money with shackles in Darbys name strikes a characteristic Pynchonian note.
Joe
on 1/27/07 9:14 PM, Keith at keithsz at mac.com wrote:
And there's Darby and Cope: Mason and Dixon impersonators and
bumbling Chain-counters.
--M&D (pp. 471-4)
'Darby' and 'Cope' are not quite British names are they? (p. 474)
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