M&D Deep Duck 4-6: The Whole Sick Crew

[jochen stremmel]

May be coincidental, but the first man sailing single-handedly around the
world was called Slocum, name of father: Slocombe; a-and the cover of the
book he wrote about his trip, published 1900, was decorated with two
seahorses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum#mediaviewer/File:Sailing-Alone-Around-the-World-cover.jpg
.

2015-01-26 22:35 GMT+01:00 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:

> Good stuff, both of you.
>
> "Knot-tying is the God Particle on a ship. Done badly and there's death?"
>
> Nice!
>
> Slowcombe sounds like slow come, like not too bright.
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>
> > On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hilarious names except for the real one, a joke by straightness...
> >
> > Slowcombe reminds me of Ed "kookie' Burns, I think he was, or Fabian
> > or any of those 'singers' or anyone really who runs the comb thru his
> > hair patiently, show-offingly.
> >
> > Knot-tying is the God Particle on a ship. Done badly and there's death?
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:26 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> Pynchon spends some time describing some of the crew of the Seahorse on
> its post-attack sailing. Why not pre-attack? Maybe he didn't want to go for
> heart-string-pulling pathos about named characters being killed or wounded?
> Are his detailed descriptions based on old Navy buddies, or does each have
> his own significance?
> >>
> >> Pig Bodine, of course, is an our old friend from V and GR. Pynchon
> describes his real-life counterpart in the intro to Slow Learner:
> >>
> >> "As it turned out, my partner's drinking companion figured in a wide
> body of shipboard anecdote. Transferred before my time to shore duty
> someplace, he had become a legend. I finally did get to see him the day
> before I was discharged ... The minute I caught sight of him, before I
> heard him answer to his name, I swear I had the strange ESP knowledge that
> that's who he was."
> >>
> >> Slowcombe, the fifer, recruited via an opiated Pint. Can't find any
> enlightening references to the name, though "slow comb" makes me think of
> someone who's ineptly playing a home-made kazoo - one of those tissue paper
> wrapped around a comb affairs.
> >>
> >> Jack "Fingers" Soames, he of the eponymous Gesture that strangely lacks
> any hostile Intent.
> >>
> >> Veevle, "legendary thro'out the Royal N. for being impossible to wake
> to stand Watch." The most Pynchonesque-sounding name.
> >>
> >> Pat O'Brian, scribbling' Sea Stories. An homage to the writer of
> historical sea novels in the 1970s.
> >>
> >> And Botswain Higgs,a play on the Higgs Boson. Bo'sun Higgs is obsessive
> about neatness in Knot-work. Is there anything in that that could be
> construed as Higgs Boson-like?
> >>
> >> Laura
> >> (crossing my fingers that the feeble cable that feeds my internet,
> which has more than once succumbed to squirrels, manages to stand up to the
> Blizzard of the Century, in full force as I type this)
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