Re: BEER: Ch. 8 & 28—SCrying

[David Morris]

Toilet Ship?

Shit is of GRs trilogy.

Shit, Money, and The Word.

It is the trilogy of Death.

Wipe your ass with money.  Wipe your money with words.

They both paper over all sins.

David Morris

On Saturday, November 9, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:

>
> On Nov 9, 2013, at 5:23 PM, John Bailey wrote:
>
>  I love that Barbie Tarot page, Robin. Thanks for the find.
>>
>
> I have long fantisized a Major Arcana consisting of images derived from
> classic animated cartoons. The Fool image pre-exists in a Rocky &
> Bullwinkle pre-commercial interregnum, where the daring duo is about to
> fall off a cliff—a frequently reoccurring image in the TV series and a
> program that doubtless inspired our author on more than one occasion.
>
>
>  In other news: Maxi's toilet-omancy might be echoed later when she is
>> hunting for Felix  . . .
>>
>
> It appears that the Toilet is a major leitmotiv in BE, with the [as far as
> I'm concerned] climatic chapter 28 being every bit as toilet obsessed as
> the Bad Ship Anubis was in Gravity's Rainbow. Both are reminiscent in their
> respective ways of Mondaugen's Story in "V." Something's about to blow.-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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