BE toilet tropes and slippery slopes

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Thu Dec 16 21:07:09 UTC 2021


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

In BE Maxine finds Felix Boingo’s name on Toilet wall in Montreal which leads her to the sought after Vip E.

Pg 146 while tailing Tallis Maxine sees her looking through  a window into a  toilet showroom jst before being picked up by guy exiting Darklinear solutions
Lester Traipse has argument with Ice heavy over web code in men’s toilet
March’s ex,  Sid used to work as studio 54 toilet attendant
 etc etc  etc 43 appearances of the word toilet
Apparently there is a film called Movie 43 which came out the same year as BE so no likely connection to Pynchonian toilet gematria


 



























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Why would anyone want to see a modern movie that “takes place” in the 1970s when there are plenty of movies from that actual era they can see instead? It’s absurd that a “re-creation” gets a major release while there are still prints of my “Plotz!” which were never projected. SH.




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