Smega

[Keith Davis]

Smegnificent! Bring it, people!

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> On Mar 28, 2016, at 10:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Smegma is a substance unknown to most Baby Boomer US males (and even today's) because circumcision was nearly universal for them. Not so for Slothrup's generation. Foreskins in late post-war times were nearly extinct in the US (but not elsewhere) and so also would be smegma.  Pynchon is a sexual fetishist for using this word that most US male readers back then would probably not know about personally.
> 
> David Morris 
> 
>> On Monday, March 28, 2016, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>      And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended), littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma". Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
>>      Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
>>    Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for ACHTUNG. What does it all mean? 
>>    And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?
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