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

[Monte Davis]

And the biggest vessel of all: M&D in  New-York, preparing to leave (704),
can't find any of their acquaintances there.

"... there is no sign of Philip Dimdown, nor Blackie, nor Captain Volcanoe.
“Out of Town,” they are told, when they are told anything.

   “Let’s drink up and get out of here, there’s no point.”

   “We can find them. That’s what we do, isn’t it? We’re Finders, after
all.”

   “The Continent is casting off, one by one, the Lines that fasten’d us to
her.”

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!):
>
> 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:
>
>
> http://www.academia.edu/1037657/Historical_Sources_for_Pynchons_Peter_Pinguid_Society
>
> GR: Well, the Anubis, of course, and the hijacked U-boat, the toilet ship.
>
> Vineland: Well, not much other than a reference to Zoyd working a cruise
> gig for Kahuna Airlines.
>
> ATD: The SS Stupendica sequence, and the Airship.
>
> IV: the Golden Fang
>
> Laura
>
> BE: If I remember, there's a little scene on a ferry boat.
>
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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