Pig Bodine

Pig Bodine

Infobox Premier
name = Seaman "Pig" Bodine



caption = Portrait of Pig Bodine from Zak Smith's illustrations of "Gravity's Rainbow".

Seaman "Pig" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many of the novels of Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in "V." (1963), and recurs in "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973), and characters named Bodine appear in "Mason & Dixon" (1997) and "Against the Day" (2006). He also occurs in the short-story "Low-lands" (1960, 1984). A character called "Fender-Belly Bodine," presumably an ancestor of "Pig," appears as a seaman in "Mason & Dixon". First developed in "V." as sidekick and comic foil to protagonist Benny Profane, Bodine reappears (set a decade or more earlier) in "Gravity's Rainbow". An "O.I.C." Bodine briefly appears in "Against the Day", in turn-of-the-20th century Colorado, again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke.


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