Breaking the Waves -- and Trainspotting

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Rodney Welch writes:

> > I can't help you one single bit, since I haven't seen the movie --
> > however, I did see another movie this weekend that clearly suggested a
> > GR antecedent. The movie is TRAINSPOTTING -- I have no idea what the
> > title means; presumably it's about mainlining heroin -- and there is a
> > surreal scene where a young man crawls all the way into a toilet. Sounds
> > kinda Slothropian, no? -- RW

I reread Trainspotting this weekend. It's even better than I
remembered it and very well written. A lot of people remarked on the
relation of the toilet scene to the one in GR when the film first came
out. If you look in the archive you should find that there was a
consensus that it was close but not close enough. Try

    http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~andrew/pynchon-l.html

and look in the folders for June, July August and October 96 and
January 97.

By the way, I have heard that Underworld, whose Born Slippy features
on the film soundtrack, have recently made it big in the US charts, as
have The Prodigy and Orbital - at least according to accounts I have
been given. Is this so? Has anyone on the list heard any of this
stuff? Is there a non-subterranean underground dance scene anywhere in
the US? Or is it all just one great unwashed mass of Lotion fans.


Andrew Dinn
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