Prentice, Captain Geoffrey ('Pirate')
Captain Geoffrey ("Pirate") Prentice is the first character introduced to the reader in Gravity's Rainbow. It is fairly likely that the name is a reference to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance in which the main character is accidentally apprenticed to a pirate instead of a pilot by his hard-of-hearing nurse-maid.1
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part and episode listing
Beyond the Zero: [1], [2]
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5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
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