M&D p. 21 How do YOU pronounce 'Bodine'..?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 14.01.2015 16:27, msacha1121 at gmail.com wrote:

> "Bow-dean", sez one very tenuously reliable source, 
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bodine
>
> Which would also make sense given the French origin.

Speaking of the French origin, could there be in Pynchon's use a 
reference to --- Bodin?

http://www.iep.utm.edu/bodin/

In context of Mason & Dixon, there's especially this:

 > He was also one of the first men to have opposed slavery. <

If you think that this is far fetched I'll agree at once but then again 
want to hint at the fact that Pynchon alludes several times in his work 
to Hobbes. See, for example, page 591 of Gravity's Rainbow:

"He'd been to see his friend Coolidge ('Hot') Short, of the State Street 
law firm of Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus, and Short, and made sure 
all the family finances were in perfect order."



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>
> On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Rhymes with Yoyodyne.......
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:montedavis49 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Pig first appeared in "Low-Lands" in 1960, then featured in V. The 
>>> rest is
>>> history, including Fender-Belly Bodine in M&D. .
>>>
>>> In the audiobook of M&D, Jonathan Reese reads it as "Bo-dyne." Might 
>>> he have
>>> had pronunciation notes via Holt, Melanie Jackson, and an authoritative
>>> source? But then again, wouldn't P himself bow to the example of Jethro
>>> Bodine ("Bo-deen") on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)?
>>>
>>> FWIW, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bodine/ 
>>> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ebodine/>
>>>
>>> Hoping to inaugurate a historic schism among the faithful, I remain y'r
>>> obd't s'v't,
>>>
>>> Montay (as I hear increasingly often these Latino-inflected days)
>>>
>> -
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