booze & daddaist (auto)biography of TRP

[Daniel Stein]

>Chris Stolz says re. TRP and wine:
>
>>       No.  he drinks beer.  He's not a yuppie twerp.
>[...]
>>  He doesn't drink wine.
>>
>>       My own image of Mr. Pynchon is as you can see somewhat
>> more proletarian than yours.
>
>Here in South Africa wine is a lot cheaper than beer (re. alcohol
>content, almost three times cheaper), and so the proles often drink
>wine - depending on the time of the week/month (I drink both,
>depending on food/mood/wallet).
>
>Wine: from around R15 (about $4,20) for five liters, reasonable
>quality, very drinkable, about 13% alcohol per volume.
>Beer: from around R30 ($8,40) per case (nine liters), ditto as to
>quality, around 5% alcohol per volume.
>
>Cheers,
>hg
>hag at iafrica.com



And I add a small thought on cultural (or social) norms:

Of course you did not intend to 'portray' the fictitious TRP as a 'yuppie
twerp',
your perspective on wine being what it is. On the other hand, it is
doubtful if ol' Tom
(being 'Murrican and all) regards wine as prole and beer as upscale.
All of this is moot of course...we can invent him to be whoever.
I like both pictures in fact.

I look at the marks he leaves behind and figure his libation of choice
oughta be
something like a banana smoothie spiked with 200 proof grain alcohol.