Pynchon Character Names

[Dave Monroe]

> http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3458-9

"In defense of stretching the material as far as possible to provide
possible meanings, I will quote the character Sir Stephen
Dodson-Truck, who speculates why a specific rocket is named Hawaii I:
'There's a poetry to it, engineer's poetry ... it suggests
Haverie--average, you know--ertainly you have the two lobes, don't
you, symmetrical about the rocket's intended azymuth [sic]... hauen,
too--smashing someone with a hoe or club' [ellipsis in the original]
(GR 207)."

Though, again, I'm not so sure that Hurley stretches nearly enough, if
at all, at times ...