Horst

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

FWIW: in GR, the Toiletship episode (where showers are mentioned too) is
associated to the aerodynamics man Horst Achtfaden, quite probably even
fantasied by him. In BE, Reg's toilet episode precedes Maxine's shower
encounter with Horst. These nice Pynchonian metonymies...

In both cases, though, toilets seem to stand metaphorically for something
else (the Rocket's wind tunnel in GR, hashslingrzian secrets in BE). Yet
the image of the Toiletship can also be seen as a metaphor of metonymy.


Heikki
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