Bodine origins

[Max Nemtsov]

oh - thank you, Laura, i'd never think of the family on my own ))
great help
Mx

On 11.07.2013 23:09, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> The Boudin family has no relationship to Bodine's origins or persona. But I couldn't help but think of this family when I first encountered Pig Bodine's name (and ever after. Call them counter-culture co-referents, or fellow travelers to whatever subversive connotations Pig Bodine might have.
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> Leonard Boudin, noted progressive civil rights lawyer (1912- 1989), famous for his support of leftist causes and defendants; successfully arguing  Supreme Court cae Lamont vs. Postmaster General (more Pynchon resonance).
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Boudin
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> and his daughter, Kathy Boudin (1943- ), of the Weather Underground (from inception, bomb explosion, fugitive status, capture, prison sentence, release, professorship).
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin
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> An odd boudin sausage reference: my mother got an invitation to some sort of antiwar upscale fundraising dinner party. The card had the slogan: "Boudin's, not Bombs!" Given that Kathy Boudin was wanted for her involvement with the bomb incident, it seemed a poor choice of words.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jul 11, 2013 11:44 AM
>> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Bodine origins
>>
>> dear colleagues,
>>
>> could anyone point me in the right direction, please? has anyone written
>> on the origins of Pig Bodine's name extensively?
>>
>> while working on GR russian translation, we looked at several versions
>> and theories, including the ones cited in Patrick Hurley's Pynchon
>> Character Names dictionary, and Charles Hollander's advise was certainly
>> instrumental to us in the work, too, but recently i've found an
>> interesting parallel with Joyce's Ulysses, and i haven't been able to
>> locate if it'd been covered by anyone before (or, maybe, i'm "inventing
>> the bicycle" here)
>>
>> to wit: in episode 16 of Ulysses (Eumaeus) , when Bloom and Stephen
>> spend some time in cabmen's shelter, they strike a conversation with one
>> of the characters there, a redbearded sailor named D.B. Murphy of
>> Carrigaloe, who seems to be fond of telling tall tales and seafaring
>> yarns. at some point (line 489), he produces a postcard from his pocket,
>> to prove the point of him witnessing Peruvian man-eating habits, which
>> of course doesn't prove anything, but is addressed to: "Senor A
>> Boudin... etc." who is, apparently not him at all. now, we even of
>> limited French, know that boudin is blood sausage (and Don Gifford in
>> his Ulysses Annotated glosses it as such). all this (and a weird postal
>> connection of course) made me think if that D.B. Murphy (meaning
>> "sea-fighter", according to Gifford) may be a literary ancestor of the
>> entire TRP's Bodine clan.
>>
>> what do you think? will appreciate your suggestions
>> Mx