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

[Joseph Tracy]

He’s a spy and a psychic both. Spying on dreams. His name can be rewrit as  preterite panic says the Pynchon Wiki. Pynchon seems to be humanly sympathetic  to this junior pirate and banana gourmet, but  is also using PP to make serious sport of where spying tends to lead: following maps of erections, dreams of giant adenoids, secret messages exposed by semen. 
> On Mar 21, 2016, at 11:04 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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... 
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> 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?
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> 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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