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Seaman "Pig" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in V. (1963), and recurs in Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Characters named Bodine also appear in Mason & Dixon (1997) and Against the Day (2006). He is featured in the short story "Low-lands," published in 1960 and again in 1984. A character named "Fender-Belly Bodine," who is presumably an ancestor of "Pig," is depicted as a seaman in the novel "Mason & Dixon." Initially introduced in "V." as a companion and comedic counterpart to the main character Benny Profane, Bodine makes a reappearance (in a timeline set a decade or more earlier) in "Gravity's Rainbow."Another seafaring Bodine, referred to only as "O.I.C." (Officer in Command), briefly makes a cameo in Against the Day, again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke.