Sexx Laws; WAS: Patrick twisted my arm so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

     Daniel Julius:
     Meanwhile, is the common reading of Pudding's consumption of 
     Katje's poo that he is trying to re-live the visceral experience of 
     that one Battle that so messed him up?  Or atoning for some 
     kind of sin?  How does this fit into that episode's structural 
     inversion of that Kabbalistic ritual?  (Sorry I don't have the 
     book w/ me and it has been a really real real long day at work).

Like Mrs. Quoad's Ghastly English Candy drill, the gag reflex comes 
into play.  And as we all know, TRP da Vth will do anything for a gag.

But seriously folks [now swimming in flop sweat, the handkerchief
now a dripping mop for a painfully furrowed brow] that Original sin 
was the first Gassing of troops---in Flanders remember?---so mud 
and stench figure in big time. It's a foreshadowing of Zyklon B, and 
that I.G. connection to the American Dream that nobody really 
wants to talk about. As for that inverted Kabbalistic action, I can tell 
somthin's goin' on, but that's as far as I'm prepared to go. Easier to 
figure out what Geli's up to, now that's my kinda chick!