Horst

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 18:56:26 CST 2013


Yea, you lost me too, except for toilets and showers being next to each
other, but aren't they usually so?

Certain themes (like shit) in GR are heavily influenced by Norman O Brown's
Life Against Death which is a Neo Freudian analysis. Brown ties shit to
Swift's Yahoos, shit flingers, and ultimately to money, and all that
humanity can buy or build with it.  This is where Pynchon's "Shit, Money &
the Word" comes from.  There is also much more of Brown's  *Life Against
Death* in GR.  GR lovers really should read it.

David Morris

On Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

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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