ATDDTA (3): Control issues, Chums, They

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> Again, these things are in the books, the author documented them,
> these particular sorts of events are the stuff that Pynchon's fictions
> are made of, aren't they?

I'm thinking also of "Down So Long" where Gnossos makes a grand and 
silly gesture (opiate suppository, wasn't it?)

Are these silly gestures (Yossarian flipping the bird instead of giving 
the thumbs-up, Roger Mexico imitating the centerpiece of a fountain, 
Jacob Horner avoiding complete atrophy by nonsensical rules) po-mo, 
Dadaistic transformations in a mellower direction of propaganda of the 
deed?  Mexico spraying pee on the board meeting is funny, spraying 
bullets wouldn't be...
Led Zeppelin's movie "The Song Remains the Same" starts with a 
scene where they do just that, but the targets spurt grape soda 
or something.