Tag: Bourbon

• A Fifth of Old Stagg

  

  In Chapter 13 of V. (in which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind) Profane has occasion to call in a favour Pig owes him. This sends our narrator digressing away on how the favour came to be owed, a tale involving Profane saving Pig’s own mortal bacon via a radar antenna […]

  mjhorn

  May 6, 2021

  V, Whisk(e)y

  Bourbon, extinct drinks, Howie Surd, Pig Bodine, Profane

• Old Fashioned

  

  I’ve recently embarked with the Chums of Chance aboard the good ship Inconvenience—and man, (isn’t this supposed to be some kinda kid’s book?) the air in here sure is alcoholic. My Against the Day list is already 50 drinks long, and I’m not even halfway through. Gravity’s Rainbow only has 45 or 46 all up. And now that’s as smooth […]

  mjhorn

  June 4, 2015

  Beer, Cocktail/mixed, Gravity’s Rainbow, Whisk(e)y

  Bourbon, Chums of Chance, Moon Dog, Slothrop

• Champagne Cocktails

  

  With all the drinking in Pynchon, you’d think there’d be a few more recognisable bars dotting his fictional landscapes. But the only one that really jumps out to me is The Scope, which we find out on the way to LA, near the Yoyodyne factory in The Crying of Lot 49. From chapter three: The Scope […]

  mjhorn

  May 3, 2015

  Cocktail/mixed, The Crying of Lot 49

  Bars/Places, Black Pearl, Blanton’s, Bourbon, Champagne, Guiness, Metzger, Mike Fallopian, Oedipa, Prosecco