Self and not Self

[Terrance]

	Human beings have always wanted to see the world in simple
black-and-white 	terms, to break the world down into
"US&THEM", even where
        such distinctions have no relation to reality. One
thinks of the
        joke about a man asked if he is a Catholic or a
Protestant,
        who replies that he is Jewish. "But," says his
interrogator,
        "are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?"

I'm real sorry I got involved in this stupid thread. It's
BS. 

What is Pynchon up to with his white toilets? What dialectic
is at work in the dreams of 
Tyrone Slothrop? Again, I suggest Brown. Also, Bradley.