eating shit in GR

[tony antoniadis]

thank you! wow! so quick, so deft is your knowledge of the text.
thanks much; my hunger, typically insatiable, has been truly
satisfied.

On 2/11/06, Dustin Iler <osirx277 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Are you thinking of Brigadier Pudding eating Katje's shit? That would be on
> pg. 238 of the great books of the 20th Century edition, and on pg. 235 of
> the Penguin 20th Century Classics edition.
>
> But since you said later on in the book, you could perhaps be thinking of
> the dinner with Bodine, Mexico, and a host of others. Which in the edition
> you mention is on 729 (starting a page or two prior) and in the 20th century
> classics on page 716 or so.
>
> Hope that your hunger is satiated.
>
> Take Care,
> Dustin
>
>
> >From: tony antoniadis <tony.antoniadis at gmail.com>
> >To: pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> >Subject: eating shit in GR
> >Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:55:02 -0500
> >
> >ah, a quick question for yiz pynchon scholars:
> >
> >in gravity's rainbow (penguin great books of the 20th century edition)
> >there is a passage where someone (and I forget who) is eating shit,
> >it's a page of glorious shit-eating which startlingly, seamslessly
> >follows a passage on other kinds of boiled european foodstuffs on a
> >plate--and it's fairly late in the book. the passage ends with the
> >information that the sounds of the crud chewingis the only sound in
> >the room--kind of similar to the sound of a dog eating peanut butter.
> >not sure if I added this detail from my own depraved storehouse or if
> >its pynchon, but surely, surely, one of you great people can point me
> >to the right page.
> >
> >thanks in advance, and sorry to assault you with this. (the stakes are
> >not major, but not minor either)
> >
> >all best,
> >tony antoniadis
> >
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