BtZ42/10 Reverse flow of food

[János Széky]

After a woman's eyes "tell him, in the instant, what he is," that is, what
goes down the toilet:
"Upstairs in the men's room at the Roseland Ballroom he swoons kneeling
over a toilet bowl, vomiting beer, hamburgers, homefries, chef's salad with
French dressing, half a bottle of Moxie, after-dinner mints, a Cha Clark
bar, a pound of salted peanuts, and the cherry from some Radcliffe girl's
old-fashioned.'"
Now that reminds me of the much longer food-and-nutritive list of what
middle-class students of Pynchon's age are composed of in Been Down So Long
It Looks Like up to Me (p 12-13):

https://books.google.hu/books?id=FJoAjhihQhwC&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=been+down+too+long+farina&source=bl&ots=V_47VsxZqB&sig=69gAczstDwqZ47txDo2UpsIHuN8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6s6aYyOvMAhXkKJoKHVR1CnUQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=eggs&f=false

If we read GR also as a commentary on the time when Pynchon wrote it, it
might be noted tha the critique of "consumer society" was a leading slogan
of those years. Slothrop gets rid of what Pynchon's roommate's mates have
incorporated before his unique descent begins. It also prefigures the first
phase (in the Monte Carlo/Nice scenes) of his longer, metaphorical descent
later in the novel, having got rid of the middle-class and military
building blocks that he had been made of.
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