BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?

[Bekah]

But what about the Gabriel part?  Gabriel was an archangel of God -  (this messed with me every time I read that name). 

It means "God is my strength."   ??? -  Did someone famous have that name and so the allusion is from that?  Or is Gabriel assuming God-like characteristics?   

Bekah


On Oct 13, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> More naming. 
> Loeffler.....German for spoonbill, can't see any relevance but we learn this marriage was Jew
> with German......more 'end of history' motif?......
> 
> And might as well get Gabriel Ice down.......Ice...the coldness as bad shit from before 
> Shakespeare....and one of P's constants, shorthand signatures as tropes go......
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> To: Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:21 AM
> Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?
> 
> Maxine's a pretty close anagram of Examine (or examiner, if you want
> to include the Tarnow).
> 
> But I like to think Pynchon doesn't use anagrams to name his
> characters these days (whoever cracked "Entropy Sloth" is a genius but
> BE isn't Gravity's Rainbow and everything he's written since that book
> has been deliberately less Coded, I think).
> 
> Mark's link to the wiki entry on Polish town Tarnow is worth looking
> at. That's some terrible history.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Fiona Shnapple
> <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Muchamore's Henderson's Boys Maxine.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson's_Boys
>> 
>> 
>> On Sunday, October 13, 2013, wrote:
>>> 
>>> Max I-net Ar Now
>>> Mac Seen
>>> Philip Marlowe
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>>> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:51:50
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>>> Subject: BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?
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>>> Maxine Tarnow. Maximum Tarnow? Tarnished now, so she is now
>>> tar?=0A=A0=0APo=
>>> lish=A0city with a lot of 'history', esp for Jews. =0AMaxine is in NYC,
>>> hav=
>>> ing survived that history. =0A=A0=0Ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn=F3w
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