Tag: Pirate Prentice

• Banana Breakfast

  

  This one’s been percolating in the back of my head pretty much since day one of the project. Parts of it have been bubbling away in the actual physical world since late 2019, creeping toward readiness. The time has come. From Mrs Quoad and her Disgusting English Candy Drill for drink ninety-nine, on to crest […]

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  February 19, 2021

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Other spirits

  Brandy, Food, France, Homebrew, Mead, Pirate Prentice

• Sherry

  

  No one thus far has drunk sherry in a Pynchon novel that I have noticed. But sherry’s ghost does linger by a window during the Rathenau séance early in Gravity’s Rainbow. Milton Gloaming is telling Jessica about his statistical analysis of the paranormal investigations; Jessica’s “mad young gentleman” Roger is off in another room with […]

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  September 27, 2020

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Wine

  Fortified wine, Jessica Swanlake, Milton Gloaming, Pirate Prentice, Roger Mexico, Spain