Back Down the Toilet of History with Pynchon « The Ambiguities
There’s not as much scatology and not as many toilets in Inherent Vice as in Gravity’s Rainbow (but really, that’s the all-time champion in both categories, isn’t it?) But at one point, a remark sends “Doc off down the Toilet of Memory…” And that made me think about Pynchon’s toilets, and his historical novels, and what he’s been up to all these years with memory and history.
Liberal blockquoting is my little attempt to heart things that don’t allow hearts. Like Wille’s writing about his reading.
