Chap 16, the IV drip continues: Penny, a bad Penny?

[Mark Kohut]

John notices: 
Penny gets allowed two toilet breaks
in IV. Must drink a lot of coffee.


We all remember some famous toilet trips in Pynchon!!?? And, we remember that P.I. Lew Basnight 'reads' a toilet bowl in Against the Day...to learn what the shit---that is the money---says about the crime. 

Money as shit from N.O. Brown's Life Against Death is a lifelong trope in TRPs work, I'd repeat.

But just a Pissy Possibility hint here in Inherent Vice. 


> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >  p. 276Penny was nervous about Doc 'cause she shopped
> him to
> > the federales, we know, "Thought you'd never want to
> speak
> > to me again."
> >
> > Doc holds no grudge, jokes the FBI were stimulating so
> he owes
> > Penny dinner.
> >
> > I am reminded of Doc saying you might as well trust a
> bad guy sometime
> > as the good ones you know. Relevant? Is this why he
> 'trusts' Penny or
> > does he just want more info from her?
> >
> > Doc basically goes to Penny at the bathroom--to make
> sure she goes out with him?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>