Some Pynchon tropes and associations in Chap 8-9.

[Mark Kohut]

8) First is toilets. Where Maxine meets Cassidy. And learns of
dicey things.

9) Where Reg enters a door marked toilet and gets verbally rugged
up.

We remember that divining a robbery crime (and beyond robbery, can't
remember)
from toilet bowl examination in Against the Day.)...

Where shady dealings involving money unite the toilets of two chapters
thematically. Toilets where
we shit and piss, those N.O Brownian Freudian tropes. Where they are
associated with "doing one's business"....which Norman connects to money
itself, of course. We all remember Shit, Money and The Word.