Horst
Fiona Shnapple
fionashnapple at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 17:05:28 CST 2013
You lost me.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> 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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