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

[Keith Davis]

Intoxicated Anarchists is a great name for a band.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:52 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's weird.
>
> And this incident:
> "On August 17, 1901, while carrying what was described as 900 intoxicated
> Paterson anarchists, some of the passengers started a riot on board and
> tried to take control of the vessel. The crew fought back and kept control
> of the ship. The captain docked the ship at the police pier, and 17 men
> were taken into custody"
> would be something for Mark's Paracultural History, wouldn't it?
>
> 2015-01-26 23:17 GMT+01:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:
>
>> ​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)
>>>>> >> -
>>>>> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>> > -
>>>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


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