Horst

[John Bailey]

Sometimes a toilet is just a toilet, but a sewerage network is always
"a series of tubes".

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> Have a deadline to meet, but will be back for an self-exegesis asap,
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> HR
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> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
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>> I may be confused by the use of the terms here, HD, so yeah, when you have
>> a minute to explain, please and thanks.
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>> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:
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>> > On Dec 3, 2013 10:22 AM, "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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...
>> > >
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>> > > 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.
>> > >
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>> > I join the clamor requesting elaboration!
>> >
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