SLPAD - 108 - "Low-Lands" - 20

[Michael Bailey]

Pig Bodine stole a 1951 MG

https://www.classicautomall.com/vehicles/1488/1951-mg-td-roadster

2-seater, probably wouldn't be very comfortable for sleeping in. But Pig
thinks the "fuzz" might be aware of the stolen car by now anyway.


Flange turns down Cindy's offer of the Volkswagen and gainsays her order to
take a clean shirt and shaving gear. Says he'll ride with Rocco and grow a
beard. Apparently a change of shirt isn't even worth refusing.

At first he thinks he'll ride the train into New York and stay in a hotel (
if this were England, he might stay at his club? ) but Rocco takes them to
the dump, where Bolingbroke - a Negro, but not a magical one, rather a
prosaic night watchman, intimidated by an impending nighttime threat he
keeps mentioning but the nature of which he takes his time disclosing to
them - allows Pig and Flange to take discarded mattresses from the
"mattress section" (notions and men's wear on the mezzanine (-; ) and bunk
down in his quarters.



Bolingbroke wears a pork pie hat (possible Lester Young reference)
https://www.brixton.com/blogs/broadcast/all-about-the-pork-pie-hat#:~:text=Its%20intriguing%20name%20comes%20from,of%20the%20pork%20pie%20hat
.


Bolingbroke - there is the Bolingbroke from Shakespeare but there is also
the Tory philosopher Bolingbroke

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bolingbroke-henry-st-john-1678-1751

Which quotes this passage which may be germane, or at least matches the
mood of "Low-Lands"
"Bolingbroke made much of the antithesis between nature and art; that is,
the alleged superiority of a pure state of nature over the evils of civil
society"