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

[Monte Davis]

Damn fine coincidence...

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:53 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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