LENARK - was: Down the toilet

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Barry Westburg writes:

> 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

Fellini's "La Femme Citadel" features a cassanova finding a hole 
under his bed - he slides down a birth canal-like tunnel and finds a 
world peopled by militant feminists, etc. 
Speaking of Scotland and BIG BOOKS and  holes and strange 
journeys - has anyone read Alasdair Grey's "Lenark"? A truly good 
book, I think. I asked this before, but.... 

hg
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