V-2nd. Pissing at the sun/: Ahab

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

A-and let's not forget about the Pirate Queen from "Gravity's Rainbow",
Frau Gnah[a]b (p. 492), another obvious Moby Dick reference:
 
"SEA CHANTY
 
I'm the Pirate Queen of the Baltic Run, and nobody fucks
with me ---
 
And those who've tried are bones and skulls, and lie benenath
the sea.
 
And the little fish like messengers swim in and out their eyes,
Singing 'Fuck ye not with Gory Gnah[a]b and her desperate
enterprise!'
 
I'll tangle with a battleship, I'll massacre a sloop,
I've sent a hundred souls to hell in one relentless swoop --
I've seen the Flying Dutchman, and each time we pass, he cries,
'Oh, steer me clear of Gory Gnah[a]b, and her desperate
enterprise!'
 
Whereupon she grips her wheel and accelerates." (GR, pp. 497-8)
 
The songs of "Gravity's Rainbow" are so good, that I can always hear
the melody playing ...
 
 
Kai
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> Kai sez:

>> In my Picador UK [Hey you Englishmen, this will be fun on Sunday, right?]
>> edition it's page 26:
>>
>> " ... with some intention of pissing on the sun to put it out for good
>> and all ..."
>>
>> This is obviously a Melville reference:
>>
>> " ... I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
>>
>> (Moby Dick, chapter [3]6: The Quarter-Deck, p. 167, London 1963: OUP)


> MK adds:
> A scholar named Dugdale finds the "his ass falls off" story to surely allude to Chap 99
> of Moby Dick where Pip asks: "unscrew your navel and what's the consequence?"


>>
>> And Benny - "Profane, fat, sweated." (p. 25) - IS insulted, because
>> "(s)un beat down out of a cloudless, UNPROTECTIVE [emphasis added] heaven"
>> (ebd.) [Interesting, this is like German where we don't have the
>> heaven/sky-distinction and it's all "Himmel"!kfl], plus he
>> feels "uncomfortable" (ebd.). Of course also wg. Rachel ...
>>
>> No hermetic arts involved so far, imo.
>>
>>
>> Kai
>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:54:03 -0700
>>> From: markekohut at yahoo.com
>>> Subject: V-2nd. Pissing at the sun
>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>
>>> p. 19 Seems to be astrology humor?...Don't know if it is almost as old a joke as astrology,
>>> but I thought I had heard a similar drunken pissing story back in the day........but
>>> I may always have been remembering this one???
>>>
>>> http://www.astrologyweekly.com/humour/pissing-on-sun.php
>>>
>>> I have always just seen it as a(nother) profane joke--this one directed toward the sun
>>> god, the god left by default, maybe, if the Sacred God is blasphemed--- if one wanted to play them ole
>>> kosmic blues again.
>>>
>>> What yu'all think?
>>>
>>
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