What's your favorite TRP scene? Please defend your choice.

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's your favorite TRP scene? Please defend your choice.
>
> There are so many to choose from, aren't there? My running favorite is
> the one in Gravity's Rainbow where Slothrop, in his Rocketman
> disguise, is sneaking under the porch at the Potsdam Conference to get
> a bag of hashish, and just as he's leaving, he manages to bump into --
> as Pynchon puts it "well, this may seem odd, but it's Mickey Rooney."
> (This may seem odd? Of all the things in that book, this may seem
> odd?) Then there's this exquisite paragraph where the two of them just
> stare at each other in mutual what the heck are you doing here?
> surprise -- Slothrop that he's seeing Mickey Rooney in the middle of
> war-torn Europe, Mickey Rooney that he's seeing a guy in a superhero
> costume holding a bag of hashish in the rain. I love the way Pynchon
> suspends that moment, zooming in and out of both men's heads. It's
> ridiculous and hilarious and then, somehow, suddenly, inexplicably
> beautiful and touching; it's Pynchon doing that thing he does that no
> one else can quite do. Is that defense enough?
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_11_013648.php

A.  The Courier's Tragedy (Lot 49)

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Defense: Duh ...