VLVL Takeshi

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> > But that doesn't
> > negate the fact that Takeshi was described as taking al kinds of drugs
> 
> Takeshi is described as taking all kinds of drugs all of the time, of
> course. I don't believe he's literally "floating" in the airport, and the
> text says "glided" anyway (it could quite easily be that he's wearing lifts
> in his shoes, or, more likely, it's the narrator's jokey way of describing
> Takeshi's physical and psychological condition). I don't think there's
> anything in the text which throws into question those events described on
> pp. 158-61, any more so than those described anywhere else.


The joke:  "Just keep an eye on his feet, you'll be fine." VL page 149
 Prairie is swift, but she's so hungry for the story that she's willing
to swallow some  big fish on the line. How about YOU? Hungry? Here, have
some jellied bologna. Some rubber scampi? 

How can YOU eat that shit? 
Pynchon? 
Yeah!
I don't know. He wrote Gravity's Rainbow.