How Cold Is It?

[Charles R Wolfe]

In the American sappers' song on p. 11 ("It's . . . Colder than the
nipple on a witch's tit!" et cetera), the first 3 items it's colder than
are either scatological or sexual, and quite funny, while the last item
(the frost on a champagne glass) is utterly innocuous. The song seems to
build up with the first 3 lines, then just go flat.   While I don't want
to attribute greater significance to every word that comes off Pynchon's
pen, this has always struck me as an odd lapse (if lapse it is).  If it
_is_ significant, anybody care to speculate why??

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