M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Yet another reason M&D starts at sea

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, good...and I was just about to post on the anarchic fun-lovingness of
his naval guys in V. and M & D.....

Basically amoral, always after sex and booze, always explosively
escaping shipwork
for hedonistic pleasures.......

They are like Falstaff and his crowd; Feste and other clowns in Shakey, bringing
all the value disruption the social order can stand?

in M & D we get Johnson's a ship is a prison on water; and we get that
riff on the
character-warping of a ship's boredom.....

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:28 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Pynchon's navy experience was obviously a formative one, given how much ships are used as plot devices, or at least referenced, in his books. So many ripe connections and metaphors. Or is it all about Moby Dick, Alice?
>
> Ships in his other books (please add to this list!):
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> V: Profane's a Navy man, and there are multiple shipboard scenes.
>
> COL49: Mike Fallopian's recounting of a naval encounter between Russian and American ships. More on this from Martin Eve:
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> http://www.academia.edu/1037657/Historical_Sources_for_Pynchons_Peter_Pinguid_Society
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> GR: Well, the Anubis, of course, and the hijacked U-boat, the toilet ship.
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> Vineland: Well, not much other than a reference to Zoyd working a cruise gig for Kahuna Airlines.
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> ATD: The SS Stupendica sequence, and the Airship.
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> IV: the Golden Fang
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> Laura
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> BE: If I remember, there's a little scene on a ferry boat.
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