Re: BEER: Ch. 8—SCrying

[Robin Landseadel]

There was an intermission. Metzger lurched into the undersized lobby  
to smoke, Oedipa headed for the ladies room. She looked idly around  
for the symbol she'd seen the other night in The Scope, but all the  
walls, surprisingly, were blank. She could not say why, exactly, but  
felt threatened by this absence of even the marginal try at  
communication latrines are known for."

CoL49, pg 52, First Perennial Classics Edition,1999.

This scene followed close on the de-tonguing of Domenico in the  
"Courier's Tragedy."
"Immediately after the death sentence was handed down, Giordano  
Bruno’s jaw was clamped shut with an iron gag, his tongue was pierced  
with an iron spike and another iron spike was driven into his palate.  
On February 19, 1600, he was driven through the streets of Rome,  
stripped of his clothes and burned at the stake."

http://space.about.com/cs/astronomyhistory/a/giordanobruno.htm


On Nov 10, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> The Periods, the blood is not there, though Maxine looks for it to be
> flowing under the doors, Cas tells here she's pissing not opening a
> vein. So no W.A.S.T.E., no Periods, only V,  only waste, or in this
> chapter, only piss. The ladies' john of CL49 is but a waste hole in
> the shadow of the towers where the tapestry is woven by ironmen.

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