IVIV: Vegetable of the Day

[Mark Kohut]

This scene is another fine bit of wit, whether total vegetarinaism is a latent ideal or not.......

Penny is an aggressive memmber of the straightworld....meaty sandwiches are even for aggressice women.....while a chili dog---who cannot resist a chili dog, someone writes---is just right for Doc, I think smilingly....

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: IVIV: Vegetable of the Day
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 5:05 AM
> Penny orders a meaty sandwich (ham,
> lamb or beef) while Doc opts for
> steamed brussel sprouts and grabs some tabasco. I'd like to
> read this
> as a pro-veg comment on the carnivorous nature of Them (and
> P is
> buddy-buddy with animal activist Coetzee, no?) but his
> propensity for
> chili dogs sort of undermines that reading.
>