Against the Day, heavensent

[Mark Kohut]

Nice----& Lew is also
 
a loo..............of course.
 
and we know that later, Detective Lew will try to solve crimes by 'toilet reading' 
which seems like another nice allusion to the truths of "Shit, Money and The Word" 
written about the trip down the Roseland toilet in GR...........(and maybe an oblique
allusion to sewer scene in V.?) 
 

From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Against the Day, heavensent

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'.
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