SLPAD - 37 - the protagonist

[Michael Bailey]

[13 months at Fort Roach]”… might have driven more ordinary men to the
point of suicide or at least insanity; indeed, according to certain more or
less suppressed army statistics, it often did. Levine, however, was not
quite ordinary. He was one of the few men outside of those bucking for
section eight who actually liked Ft. Roach.”

& 3 salient details:

He’d softened his Bronx accent

Developed a taste for the local liquor, white lightning

And for hillbilly music in local bars - as much as he used to like
listening to Gerry Mulligan or Lester Young at Birdland.

There’re many varieties he might’ve encountered, none of which looks like
“the” obvious choice, to my untrained eye:

This?
https://youtu.be/WPDp8azxqd0

This?
https://youtu.be/v9XOFRRosLE

This?
https://youtu.be/OOVroO1DEMM


Bluegrass?
https://youtu.be/GniopNqqxUE


Cajun music?
https://youtu.be/rs0sd7vQUs8



“He was well over six feet and loose-jointed, but what certain coeds at
City had once described as a plowboy physique, rawboned and taut-muscled,
had run to flab after three years of avoiding work details.”

Hence the nickname.

City - City College New York?
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu


The word “flab” occurs at least once in V., I think Profane uses it to
describe himself.

Not a word one hears much lately, is it?