Some Pynchon tropes and associations in Chap 8-9.

[Johnny Marr]

Was/is TRP a musician? There’s a great affinity with all kinds of music
throughout his works

On Thursday, December 16, 2021, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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