Pig Bodine
Seaman "Pig" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in V., and recurs in Gravity's Rainbow. Characters named Bodine also appear in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He also occurs in the short-story "Low-lands". 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 in Gravity's Rainbow. Another seafaring Bodine, referred to only as "O.I.C.", briefly makes a cameo in Against the Day, again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke.
