a quick question

[Dave Monroe]

See, e.g., ...

   "'All I need's the money, Trooper, I can't even
keep enough groceries in this place.'
   "'Oh, no.  I know what that means.  Fat talk!  What
am I supposed to do?  Isn't me that's leaving all
these cakes and pies and stuff layin' around, candy
bars in the freezer, Nestle's Quik instead of sugar,
eeoo!  What chance have I got?'" (VL, Ch. 2, p. 15)

"He ordered the Health Food Enchilada Special and
Hector had the soup of the day, cream of zucchini, and
the vegetarian tostada, which upon its arrival he
began to take apart piece by piece and reassemble as
something else Zoyd could not identify but which
seemed to hold meaning for Hector.
   "'Lookit that, lookit your food, Hector, what have
you done?'
   "'At last I'm not droppín it all over the place,
includín my shirt, like I was out in some parkín
lot.'"  (VL, Ch. 3, p. 25)

   "Prairie worked at the Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple,
which a little smugly offered the most wholesome, not
to mention the slowest, fast food in the region, a
clssic example of the California pizza concept at its
most misguided.[...]  Its sauce was all but crunchy
with the fistfuls of herbs only marginally Italian and
more appropriate ina cough remedy, the renntless
cheese reminded customers variously of bottle
hollandaise or joint compound, and teh options were
all vegetables rigorously organic, whose high water
content saturated, long before it baked through, a
stone-ground twelve-grain crust with the ligtness and
digestibility of a manhole cover."  (VL, Ch. 4, p. 45)

And ...

"We drank the blood of our enemies.  The blood of our
friends, we cherished." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 739)

And then there's the General Pudding diet ...

--- Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net> wrote:
>
> I hoped the collective mind here might help me
> ponder a quick question.
> 
> I'm in a book club, and have been justifiably
> accused although in an unjustifiably exaggerated
> way of relating every book we've ever read to 
> something in Pynchon.
> 
> I'm worried that, to thwart this tendency of mine,
> that the next book will be Dr. Atkins New Diet
> Revolution. Now while I wouldn't have any problems 
> with references to revolution, here's my question
> (actually posed to me by our next "picker"):
> 
> > You've found answers/references to nearly
> > everything in Pynchon. How about weight loss
> > diets?
> 
> I'd appreciate any & all help & advice.


	
		
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