The Disgusting English Candy Drill

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Nalline is actually an opiate _antagonist_
ie passim how about connecting Mrs Quoad's parlor 
and her ministrations to Tyrone as motherly, linking
her with Nalline, and maybe
leading in a cluster of associations to 
awakening a deadened conscience via the
English Candy Drill (dentist's drill, of course, 
and "you know the drill" - as the 
"cleaner" says to the guys in Pulp Fiction before 
hosing them off; and of course woodworking-wise
one drills preparatory to screwing - which 
pertains to all the ancillary anecdotes stemming
from Slothrop's amatory adventures, "drilling down"
through the wacky Brit customs to get to the
naked scenes) in this (isn't it?),the first time we
consider Slothrop outside a military setting; 

Also, the deceased husband's name, Austin,
("he was my health" - what are we to make of that?)
is used in Chaucer to mean St Augustine 
("What sholde he studie, and make him-selven wood, 	
Upon a book in cloistre alwey to poure,	        
Or swinken with his handes, and laboure,	
As Austin bit? How shal the world be served?	
Lat Austin have his swink to him reserved.	
Therfor he was a pricasour aright" - Canterbury
Tales, Prologue) and of course Augustine
wrote on memory, which is also the subject
of cogitation here, the mysterious way that Mrs Quoad 
and her wormwood tea on his previous visit
come back to Slothrop's mind when he sets
foot in her parlor...