GR/Trainspotting

[Paul]

The scene in the film brought the same thought to my mind. And yes, it is in
the original novel, which is probably worth digging out to find the exact
passage.
-----Original Message-----
From: RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com <RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Joseph Silber
<zoseph at jps.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: GR/Trainspotting


>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