Some Pynchon tropes and associations in Chap 8-9.

[Mark Kohut]

Kazoo? Ukulele? ....

A GREAT listener. I Imagine him playing music all day as he works. I
imagine him reading a mystery or watching a movie every night for a palate
cleanser yet loose seedings since
genius cannot help itself that way.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 4:50 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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