"Who cares?" Fallopian shrugged
Сенсация. Новое слово в "Пинчониане". Раскрыты что за такие корабли "bogatir" и "gaidamak" ! Подробности дальше.
Отрывок из третьей главы COL49.
The Peter Pinguid Society was named for the commanding officer of the Confederate man-of-war "Disgruntled," who early in 1863 had set sail with the daring plan of bringing a task force around Cape Horn to attack San Francisco and thus open a second front in the War For Southern Independence. Storms and scurvy managed to destroy or discourage every vessel in this armada except the game little "Disgruntled," which showed up off the coast of California about a year later. Unknown, however, to Commodore Pinguid, Czar Nicholas II of Russia had dispatched his Far East Fleet, four corvettes and two clippers, all under the command of one Rear Admiral Popov, to San Francisco Bay, as part of a ploy to keep Britain and France from (among other things) intervening on the side of the Confederacy. Pinguid could not have chosen a worse time for an assault on San Francisco. Rumors were abroad that winter that the Reb cruisers "Alabama" and "Sumter" were indeed on the point of attacking the city, and the Russian admiral had, on his own responsibility, issued his Pacific squadron standing orders to put on steam and clear for action should any such attempt develop. The cruisers, however, seemed to prefer cruising and nothing more. This did not keep Popov from periodic reconnoitring. What happened on the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear. Popov did send out a ship, either the corvette "Bogatir" or the clipper "Gaida-mak," to see what it could see. Off the coast of either what is now Carmel-by-the-Sea, or what is now Pismo Beach, around noon or possibly toward dusk, the two ships sighted each other. One of them may have fired, if it did then the other responded; but both were out of range so neither showed a scar afterward to prove anything. Night fell. In the morning the Russian ship was gone. But motion is relative. If you believe an excerpt from the "Bogatir" or "Gaidamak" 's log, forwarded in April to the General-Adjutant in St Petersburg and now somewhere in the Krasnyi Arkhiv, it was the "Disgruntled" that had vanished during the night.
Курю комментарии (pynchon wiki) и всякие Companion books. Читаю я эту "Пинчониану" и поражаюсь сам себе. Вот "они тупые эти пинчоноведы".
Началось с того, что они верят, что Пинчон перепутал Николая 2 и Александра 2-го. Кто-нибудь верит в это? Что Пинчон мог так перепутать?
Ну ладно Нил Стивенсон перенес Санкт-Петербург в свой 17-й век, может быть случайно, хотя тоже сильно вряд ли. Но Пинчон перепутал???
Я не поверил и решил, что это намек, я все ловлю на лету.
Дальше эти русские названия кораблей. Никому ничего не напоминают? Мне кажется очевидным, что это "Варяг" и "Кореец". Особенно если покурить википедию. Там varyag и bogatir сильно рядом. Казалось бы почему "Кореец" - "Гайдамак", опять курим вики и находим.
Дальше-- The Battle of Chemulpo Bay (Japanese) was an early naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), which took place on 9 February 1904, off the coast of present-day Inchon, Korea.
По-моему, эта дата очень близка к 9 марту 1864 года.
Самое забавное, что google ничего похожего на мою очевидную догадку не находит. Я первый?
Отрывок из третьей главы COL49.
The Peter Pinguid Society was named for the commanding officer of the Confederate man-of-war "Disgruntled," who early in 1863 had set sail with the daring plan of bringing a task force around Cape Horn to attack San Francisco and thus open a second front in the War For Southern Independence. Storms and scurvy managed to destroy or discourage every vessel in this armada except the game little "Disgruntled," which showed up off the coast of California about a year later. Unknown, however, to Commodore Pinguid, Czar Nicholas II of Russia had dispatched his Far East Fleet, four corvettes and two clippers, all under the command of one Rear Admiral Popov, to San Francisco Bay, as part of a ploy to keep Britain and France from (among other things) intervening on the side of the Confederacy. Pinguid could not have chosen a worse time for an assault on San Francisco. Rumors were abroad that winter that the Reb cruisers "Alabama" and "Sumter" were indeed on the point of attacking the city, and the Russian admiral had, on his own responsibility, issued his Pacific squadron standing orders to put on steam and clear for action should any such attempt develop. The cruisers, however, seemed to prefer cruising and nothing more. This did not keep Popov from periodic reconnoitring. What happened on the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear. Popov did send out a ship, either the corvette "Bogatir" or the clipper "Gaida-mak," to see what it could see. Off the coast of either what is now Carmel-by-the-Sea, or what is now Pismo Beach, around noon or possibly toward dusk, the two ships sighted each other. One of them may have fired, if it did then the other responded; but both were out of range so neither showed a scar afterward to prove anything. Night fell. In the morning the Russian ship was gone. But motion is relative. If you believe an excerpt from the "Bogatir" or "Gaidamak" 's log, forwarded in April to the General-Adjutant in St Petersburg and now somewhere in the Krasnyi Arkhiv, it was the "Disgruntled" that had vanished during the night.
Курю комментарии (pynchon wiki) и всякие Companion books. Читаю я эту "Пинчониану" и поражаюсь сам себе. Вот "они тупые эти пинчоноведы".
Началось с того, что они верят, что Пинчон перепутал Николая 2 и Александра 2-го. Кто-нибудь верит в это? Что Пинчон мог так перепутать?
Ну ладно Нил Стивенсон перенес Санкт-Петербург в свой 17-й век, может быть случайно, хотя тоже сильно вряд ли. Но Пинчон перепутал???
Я не поверил и решил, что это намек, я все ловлю на лету.
Дальше эти русские названия кораблей. Никому ничего не напоминают? Мне кажется очевидным, что это "Варяг" и "Кореец". Особенно если покурить википедию. Там varyag и bogatir сильно рядом. Казалось бы почему "Кореец" - "Гайдамак", опять курим вики и находим.
Дальше-- The Battle of Chemulpo Bay (Japanese) was an early naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), which took place on 9 February 1904, off the coast of present-day Inchon, Korea.
По-моему, эта дата очень близка к 9 марту 1864 года.
Самое забавное, что google ничего похожего на мою очевидную догадку не находит. Я первый?