Down the toilet

[Barry Westburg]

Speaking of "down the toilet"-- the recent film "Trainspotting" has a
scene in which the main character goes into the Dirtiest Toilet in
Scotland and then slides down into it, entering into a blue-green sea.
Possibly borrowed/stolen from GR?7

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> From: Michael Robert Scotton <mrscott at ozemail.com.au>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Bowman/Pulse
> Date: Wednesday, 5 June 1996 12:34
> 
> Will L writes that:
> 
> >Bowman's error about "the
> >light-bulb down the toilet" seems not like some funny intentional
mistake but,
> >well, a real error.  And the error of finding either of these two
passages (the
> >harmonica down the toilet or "The Story of Byron the Bulb") to be
trivial seems
> >like exactly the kind of error you would make if you absolutely DIDN"T
GET
> >Gravity's Rainbow at all.
> 
> Just for the record, Byron does actually make a journey: "...and plop!
there
> goes Byron in the water and flusssshhhh! away the waste lines to the
Elbe
> estuary.".
> 
> Not sure about those Dylan lyrics though...
> 
> Michael Scotton
> 
>