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

[Monte Davis]

​And just for the record, what I think *is* a seaborne coincidence: the day
before Bloomsday (and namechecked in Ulysses) -- NYC's bloodiest disaster
before 11 September:  ​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> > -
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>>
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