VL--IV Wayvone

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> can be broken into Way and Vone---meaning v-one (rocket)-- says the dictionary. Seems very strained but it is unusual to me that Wayvone seems to NOT BE anyone's last name historically......

Wayvone, Ralph, Jr. (Vine)

   Diebold and Goodwin suggest a play on the popular rock refrain,
"rave on."  Wayvone itself does not seem to mean anything.  It is not
a common surname, but seems to be used occasionally as a given name.
The sound of the surname is the same as the Chicano slang term juevon
(lazy, or someone who does no work) (Vasquez and Vasquez 49).

--Hurley, Pynchon Character Names, p. 172

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

p. 10 "Wayvone" = The name may be a play on "rave on," but it's also
been suggested that it might derive from huevon, a Spanish word
meaning egg, but also referring to a testicle -- hence someone with
"big balls." (Pynchon did live in Mexico for a while...)  In any case,
Wayvone is also a remittance man, someone who gets paid a small but
regular amount of money to stay out of trouble in some far-away place.
Pynchon seems fond of the type -- there are several in V and Gravity's
Rainbow, and the latter even has a remittance horse (named Snake).

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter1.htm

... Is it pronounced "wavy one"?

http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_10

Do someone credit D&G there, please.  Wayv-one, Way-von-e[e], Way-v[ee]-one ...

Here's a potentially interesting note from the archives:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9811&msg=33554

And a rather less useful one, but ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0405&msg=90881

But foillowing up on something from Hurley, it does indeed seem "to be
used occasionally as a given name,"albeit as a female one...

Mrs. Wayvone Baldwin, age 68, of Forrest City, died early Thursday
morning, June 12, 2003, at Crestpark Retirement Inn in Forrest
City....

http://www.thnews.com/archive/ar2003/june/obits6-13.html

Wife:> BRIMMAGE WAYVONE MISS OBIT-WAYVONE

http://argenweb.net/stfrancis/MARRIAGES/MARRIAGES2008F.htm

OSMON, WAYVONE                 5  22 1951   f

http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/titus/vitals/births/1951/titus51b.txt

Name: 	San'tiya Wayvone Reed

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gsfn=Waymon%20T&gsln=Reed&gss=seo&ghc=20

Distribution of Wayvone Listings across the United States

http://names.whitepages.org/first/Wayvone

Note also Wayvon, Wayvonne ...

Now if only someone'd only summon forth the ol' Magic Eye ...