GR/Trainspotting

[RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com]

Joseph Silber <zoseph at jps.net> writes:
> if anyone has noticed the similarity between the scene in which Slothrop 
> dives for his harmonica (p. 72ff in the Bantam mass market edition of 
> 1974 or 75) and that in Trainspotting in which Renton dives for his lost 
> suppositories
my first thought on seeing that scene in the film was "gee, aren't they 
plagurizing pynchon or something?"). but it occurred to me that the scene 
might not have been in the original novel (though i think welsh did the 
sceenplay as well as the novel). i keep meaning to check the novel but alas keep
managing to forget....

> (p. 26, but handled much more graphically in the movie)?
i'd say that the description of slothrop's journey down the sewer and all the 
'red river valley' stuff is considerably more graphic in detail than a written 
description of the scene in trainspotting would be (a'la "junky dives down 
toilet to retrieve defecated suppositories, emerges into beautiful blue lagoon, 
swims to ocean floor, digs through sand, finds suppositories 'white shiny and 
new', and swims to surface to reemerge from the worst toilet in scotland"). just
imagine what the scene in GR would be like if in film...

--rwilson

"perhaps my brains have turned to sand" -- eno
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