VL--IV p. 60 'the toilet of the Cosmic Pineapple'

[Mark Kohut]

p. 60 The Cosmic Pineapple $10. Absolut Vodka, Midori, Blue Curacao,. Pineapple juice. Lemon Drop $10. Absolut Citron, Lemon Juice, Simple ...

There is a Dole 'Cosmic' pineapple brand. There is also here, a kind of Cosmic Pineapple mandala, provenance unknown! http://www.angelfire.com/co4/sunbath/images/Circles/14.htm
(No, I do not think it is one of Pynchon's hidden meanings here, as the mandala is in GR, for example, just an interesting unexpected example of his use of a kind of universal symbol. (See Jung, another TRP source for much. When, as an artist one of your goals is to find or create images and symbols that carry so much illuminating meaning, it is good to have read Jung! )


p.60, "toilet of"..[the Cosmic Pineapple]. Where Zoyd learned of a possible job. Notice TRP did NOT write in 'the men's room of"...BUT toilet, where Slothrop's unforgettable adventure started; toilet, where Lew Basnight looked to solve his case; toilet, where shit goes, shit which equals money--"filthy lucre"---in Norman O. Brown's "Life Against Death", which is why Zoyd needs a job. Another of TRP's lifelong meaningful "symbols", so to speak.