BE toilet tropes and slippery slopes

[Joseph Tracy]

Also a connection with toilets and drug use - In BE coke and then Avi with computer duster in toilet,  Coy Harlingen In IV   (IV in this case intra venous), prolly more    Then there is famous harmonica retrieval plunge of  Slothrop. I guess a lame joke would be that with Pynchon as with so many of his readers, toilets are a place where shit happens. A trbute to Duchamp?

> On Dec 16, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> In BE Maxine finds Felix Boingo’s name on Toilet wall in Montreal which leads her to the sought after Vip E.
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> 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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> Sam Harpoon
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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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