Tag: Canada
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Canadian IPA
As an unreformed craft beer nerd, I have sometimes wished Mr Pynchon would slip a few more specialty brews in among the Burgundian vintages and unlikely cocktails. Not that we don’t get thrown a few bones; one beery highlight I recall fondly was the lambic from Against the Day, and I’ve made the most of…
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Canadian Ale
The Kenosha Kid episode is something of an early milestone in Gravity’s Rainbow, I’d say. Sixtyish pages in, playful and bizzare, it might well mark the dividing fork at which a new Pynchon reader either hurls the book at the wall or really starts to settle in for a good time. Slothrop’s doped up on sodium amytal, dreaming variations on…
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King Kong
King Kong? Pynchon helpfully explains that it’s “Crown Royal plus banana liqueur.” (Banana for the monkey, Crown for the King–a little poem in itself.) The internet helpfully elaborates that you can down your King Kong either as a shooter or over ice. Or both! Here we go: As a shot, the King Kong tastes primarily of cough medicine.…
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