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In the Bleeding Edge promo blurb, Pynchon hints about a possible cameo by
Jerry Seinfeld.

If you think of “Jerry Seinfeld” in maybe more of a specialized way... He
does appear multiple times in Bleeding Edge

The character Reg Despard IS Jerry Seinfeld.

Reg gets high praise by a professor for his bootlegging ways. Jerry gets
the same praise from a criminal movie pirate named Brody in The Little
Kicks (Episode 4, Season 8 )

One of Jerry’s nicknames on the show is just “Jer”. Elaine calls him that
sometimes. Spell it backwards: Rej

The ‘unscheduled guest appearance’ mentioned in the promo blurb corresponds
to Reg’s debut in the book: Having shown up at Maxine’s job unannounced -
without an appointment.

Aspects of the scene from BE in which Horst gobbles the Ben & Jerry’s ice
cream are lifted directly from the part of the episode in which Kramer is
eating Jerry’s Healthy Choice ice cream right out of the container.

Of course, the Ben & “Jerry’s” ice cream is another ‘cameo’ of Jerry
Seinfeld (Note the apostrophe indicating ownership)

In that case, could the “Ben” be a curious incarnation of Benny Profane?

Kramer and Horst both eat their ice cream directly out of the carton.

Also: the Seinfeld character’s name is: “Kozmo Kramer”

In Chapter One of BE we have: “Krispy Kreme”

... Remember those ‘Kute Korrespondences’ of Gravity’s Rainbow ?

P.S. When Jerry learns from Brody about bootlegging: He becomes a Pirate
Apprentice 🏴‍☠️ 🍌 (A-and wasn’t there a Brody mention in V. ?)

And another thing: Sooo, Horst Loeffler sits down to eat Ben & Jerry’s
“Chunky Monkey” ice cream, and he digs in with both hands using two
oversize spoons.

This particular Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor is banana-flavored with
chocolate chunks and walnuts.

The most glaring link with the fact that it’s ICE cream would be to the
characters of Gabriel Ice and Immanuel Ice (He appears with someone named
Horst near the end of Mason & Dixon) but the scene also resembles an homage
to the rainbow-colored spider-MONKEYS that Stencil’s father digs out of
CHUNKS of ice in Vheissu.

in Against the Day: Webb dreams of doing violence with a ‘chunk of ice’

The ice cream being banana-flavored, of course, recalls Gravity’s Rainbow’s
Banana Breakfast.

The surname Loeffler means “spoon maker,” - and Horst is eating the ice
cream with two spoons. Maxine notes that one of the spoons is for mooshing
the ice, and the other is for scooping it out.

The bird in the photo below is a white colored Loeffler/Spoonbill. See the
huge spoon-shaped nose? This aligns with Horst using such oversized spoons.

The given name Horst may be suggestive of Nazi things, but Pynchon was also
aware of the geological meaning of the word horst, because just after his
name is introduced into Bleeding Edge, it’s mentioned that Maxine uses
Fleetwood Mac’s song “Landslide” to cope during their break-up. To speak
about a landslide in Old English, they would’ve said “eorðgebyrst”;
literally "earth-burst."
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