V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Meanwhile, over to Roonie & Mafia's place...

[alice wellintown]

Blogsounds ...a long consideration of #12.

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nice, nice.....
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> 12 destroyers, 12 pornos....NOT a coincidence!
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 7:24:34 PM
> Subject: V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Meanwhile, over to Roonie & Mafia's place...
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> Goodness me, remember Bermuda shorts?  Do they still make those?
> well, de gustibus and all that!
> Roonie finds Pig Bodine irritating.  I always found Bermuda shorts a
> bit irritating.
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> In fact, most everybody in the WSC is a bit irritating.  Yet they must
> like each other: they're in and out of each other's lives, apartments,
> beds.
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> What I find interesting in Pig Bodine's sea story:
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> a) they routed the captains out of bed for Pig's FLASH.  This is 2
> carriers, twelve destroyers, and some other unspecified "heavies" - a
> lot of captains.  Pig's posse is tight-lipped, since every captain's
> log would have to show some kind of due diligence in finding the
> perpetrator of the false alarm.
> I started to write, "couldn't happen today", but ya know what folks, I
> bet it could...one of our data techs from my work environment is in
> the reserves and on some kind of extended duty in the Caribbean, and
> I'd bet if he had a mind to, he could probably find a way...
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> b) FLASH (first contact with enemy forces) would seem to be the
> ultimate priority, wouldn't it?  The 2nd porno goes out under
> "precedence Operational Immediate", and "It was followed by other
> high-priority efforts", but I think Pig's brazenness was
> unsustainable...his imitators wouldn't dare abuse that code again, and
> it looks like he just sent the one.
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> c) 12 destroyers in the fleet, 12 pornos filed by Pig under F - coincidence?
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> d) again, about FLASH - if you are sending out pornos under that
> heading, then by implication, even if only in a Freudian subterranean,
> or submarinean way, porn is the enemy?
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> e) and where do they all end up?  In Pig's library.
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> f) but his vigilance flagged, and with it his fortunes...
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