GR inspiration for Trainspotting scene?

[Victor Lazzarini]

Might be worth asking the man himself, apparently living in Dublin, as  
a gentleman of leisure. There might be a chance for me to do it  
someday (book signing or some other do).

On 2 Dec 2009, at 14:23, Joe Allonby wrote:

> Thought that myself. Opium belladonna suppository in the filthiest
> toilet in Scotland.
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Victor Lazzarini
> <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
>> It occurred to that the scene where Slothrop goes inside a toilet  
>> in search
>> for his harp has a very close parallel in Irvine Welsh's  
>> Trainspotting, when
>> Rents goes in search of an expelled (methadone?) suppository  
>> (recalling it
>> from memory). Perhaps GR provided an inspiration?
>>
>> Victor
>>