scramble or scumble?

[Craig Clark]

You quote:
> In the last full paragraph of page 5 in the Penguin, we are given
> "fragments of peculiar alkaloids, to rooftop earth, along with 
> manure from a trio of prize Wessex Saddleback sows quartered there
> by Throsp's sucessor, and dead leaves off many decorative trees 
> transplanted to the roof by later tenants, and the odd unstomachable
> meal thrown or vomited there by this or that sensitive epicurian -
> all got scrambled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons,
             ^^^^^^^^^
> to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which
> anything could grow, not the least being bananas."

I confess not to having a copy of GR at hand, but isn't it 
"scumbled"? I remember being struck by the word on all my previous 
readings. Apparently it's an archaic word for shit.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"