John Dos Passos - "go shock the Booch"

[Kahroba]

Dear guys

Could someone please tell me what's the meaning of "go shock the Booch" in the following text, taken from "The Camera Eye (28), "1919", "USA", written by John Dos Passos:
(please note: a) there are no punctuations in Camera Eyes- everything in this passage is exactly like what it appears in the book!; B) "she" means Dos Passos mother who died in 1915 and C) "bellglass means Harvard where Dos Passos was a student from 1912-1916)

when the telegram came that she was dying (the streetcarwheels screeched round the bellglass like all the pencils on all the slates in all the schools) walking around Fresh Pond the smell of puddlewater willowbuds in the raw wind shrieking streetcarwheels rattling on loose trucks through the Boston suburbs grief isn't a uniform and go shock the Booch and drink wine for supper at the Lenox before catching the Federal .... I'm so tired of violets... take them away---

[Kahroba]

Dear guys
Please someone tell me the meaning of this phrase:"I know it wasn't the stork", taken from "The Big Money", written by John Dos Passos in the following context.
Please note time is after 1926 - location: Harlem, New York:

When they were alone ... Pat turned to Dick and said, "Oh, Dick, do take me some place low... nobody'll ever take me any place really low." "I should think this would be quite low enough for a juniorleaguer," he said. "But this is more respectable than Broadway, and I'm not a juniorleaguer... I'm the new woman. I want to see life." "All right, young lady, we'll go... but don't blame me if it's too rough for you." "I'm not a sissy, " said Pat angrily. "I know it wasn't the stork."

I know what parents tell the kids about storks bringing the babies, but, isn't there something else?

[dramasnot6]

Its a declaration of his not being ignorant, hes basically saying ¨im not stupid¨.

[Kahroba]

Is there a special forum or anybody interested or familiar with works of John Dos Passos specially, "U.S.A."?

[Logos]

No 'special' forum, but I have moved these to the General Literature discussion area from General Chat, but be patient, I'm sure more will respond :)

[MaryLupin]

I suggest you check out the Ebonics Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=booch) where "booch" is defined. Essentially it is passage that describes both how grief feels "the streetcarwheels screeched round the bellglass like all the pencils on all the slates in all the schools" and some things the character thought/did to handle the pain.

With respect to "I am so tired of violets" you might want to consider the traditional meaning attached to the flower. One meaning is "faithfulness." Ask yourself if the character is tired of being faithful (or being asked to be faithful). Others are available by search the web for flower symbolism.