Bleeding Edge: Pynchon and toilet intelligence

[Mark Kohut]

*"Shit, Money and the Word" *for sure.......all the toilet meetings in BE,
another one coming up

and as this resurfaces from Trump campaigning one can now remember Lew
[loo]  and reading the toilet water bubbles in *Against the Day *who found
his dark scary clues

in deep looks into commodes....

And, of course, puritanism and its endless need to clean the shit off one's
soul.


Sorry for the broken text.....ads that don't appear....."The document
flushing allegation has also resurfaced complaints Trump made during his
presidency about how difficult it was to get things to go down the drain.
In 2019, Trump complained
<https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-flush-toilet-15-times/> that
Americans have to flush “10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.”
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During a roundtable discussion with small business leaders about
deregulatory actions, Trump said, “We have a situation where we’re looking
very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where
you turn the faucet on—and in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of
water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it,
and you don’t get any water.”

Trump said that he’d directed the Environmental Protection Agency to look
into the matter.
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The comments appeared to be directed at low-flow toilets, sinks, and
showers. He repeated the story plenty of times on the campaign trail as
well.

Several people unearthed Trump’s previous potty problems after the flushing
story broke.

“It makes sense now,” Drew Harwell of the *Washington Post *tweeted
<https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1491767188528766979> with
screenshots of both headlines. Others made similar comparisons.
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