I’ve been teaching my second-grade son recently to identify a book’s main idea. “ Everything is some kind of a plot, man,” Bodine laughing. “This is some kind of a plot, right?” Slothrop sucking saliva from velvet pile. About that rubdown, a brief exchange ensues: Bodine promises to keep watch for the MPs and a mysterious rocket specialist whom Slothrop has been chasing. Slothrop’s sidekick, Bodine, a Navy Seaman and hashish dealer, is trying to coax him out to enjoy two of the house specialties, a steam bath and erotic rubdown. It is shortly after VE Day, and Slothrop is wearing a pig suit, a disguise that just got him out of one tight scrape but landed him in the present one. On page 603 of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon we find the protagonist, Tyrone Slothrop, hiding from the military police in the closet of a whorehouse in northern Germany.
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