C'est Magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

[Monte Davis]

For all Pirate's implication in SOE's (and Others') manipulative plots, and
for all he conceals from Slothrop (as even Tantivy does), he's a decent
sort. His first waking act in the book is to spare Teddy Bloat a hard
landing, and his last real-time appearance (637-639) is encouraging: "In
Pirate’s maisonette, everyone is singing now a counterforce traveling
song... 'it isn't a resistance, it's a war'"]

On the Pynchon's Wacky Names front, "Pirate" would have been a natural
public-school-boys' nickname in that Gilbert & Sullivan-soaked era for
anyone surnamed "Prentice." But there may be a little more to it -- some
carry-over of Frederic's comically exaggerated attachment to Duty and Honor
amid the cutthroats and outcasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:04 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> After the more surreal introduction, where death, holocaust, war,
> evacuation are all inter-meshed... the players dust themselves off the
> floor and get back to their organized death rituals... but not before they
> have their reprieve... a la Pirate Prentice's Banana Breakfast...
>
> In this section we get to know Prentice, a sort-of character that could
> have doubled in a Graham Greene novel... It would be interesting to know
> what the group as a whole thinks of Pirate Prentice?
>
> There is something redemptive about this coming together, as in many of
> Pynchon's work, he can find some redeeming qualities inevitable in
> entropy...
>
>
>
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