IVIV (3) Swedish Fish (49) = wine jellies?
Doug Millison
dougmillison at comcast.net
Tue Sep 8 10:01:15 CDT 2009
Swedish Fish (49), which the Wikipeda via Robin helpfully informs us
are a kind of "chewy winegum candies" call to mind the Disgusting
English Candy Drill in GR (116):
"They go for things we would never dream of. Sometimes it is enough to
turn your stomach, boy. The other day I had one of these things they
call 'wine jellies.' That's their idea of _candy_, Mom! Figure out a
way to feed that to Hitler 'n' I betcha the war'd be over
_tomorrow_!" (GR 116)
IV is riddled with such allusions and references to Pynchon's previous
work, as if IV might work as some kind of map to his earlier books -
that's one way I'm reading it.
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