Re: BEER: Ch. 8 & 28—SCrying

[Fiona Shnapple]

You can get anything you want in Manhattan,  except a toilet.

http://www.nyc.com/visitor_guide/public_toilets.75879/editorial_review.aspx

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Go-Manhattans-Toilets-Edition/dp/0963358626


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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