Horst

[David Morris]

Besides, the toilet ship isn't a wind tunnel (but a fart tunnel works), it
is another rocket, a big turd in the water. As such it is also a penis.

On Tuesday, December 3, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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