Some Pynchon tropes and associations in Chap 8-9.

[Mark Kohut]

I will remember this soon enough and of course there is Red and the
harmonica trip.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 1:41 PM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
wrote:

> And (I suppose "mild spoiler?") in Chapter 28 of "Bleeding Edge" Pynchon
> gives us a tour-de-force of toilets, ending with a surreal sequence in a
> massive disco toilet.
>
> —Quail
>
> On 12/16/21, 1:35 PM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of Mark Kohut" <
> pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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.
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