Against the Day, heavensent

Fri Feb 10 07:57:16 CST 2012

One of Pynchon's word plays involves those 'lavatorial assaults' and
the name of the ship, the Inconvenience:

con·ven·ience (kn-vnyns)

5. Chiefly British:  A lavatory.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The third reference to the heavens in the early sections of AtD is about the 'lavatorial assaults' done by the crew which have been seen as 'folklore, superstition or, to stretch the term "religious'.