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6945182 No.6945182 [Reply] [Original]

What's up with the poop eating?

>> No.6945257

>>6945182
Man, knowing Wordsworth I actually considered the possibility of that being the actual cover.

>> No.6945292

Joyce and his farts
Pynchon and his shit
Genius and disgustingness are not mutually exclusive.

>> No.6945357

>>6945182
It displays the crux of Brigadier Pudding's psychology, his incompetence in the leadership role and his desire to be relieved from power, a desire which has become so fetishized by him it has become a sexual compulsion. The whole passage is basically drawn from the psychological underpinnings of Venus in Furs, and Pynchon makes frequent reference though out the scene to the book and Masoch.

Plotwise it expands upon Dr. Pointsman's psychology and explains realistically how he was able to seize control of The White Visitation's agenda and funds during the close of the war.

Honestly the racial undertones make me far more uncomfortable than the coprophilia itself, but that was drawn straight from Masoch as well.