Tag: Ireland

• Irish Whiskey and Water

  

  When we last met here, you were humouring my rambling on at unprecedented length and pretentiousness about fermented horse milk. Let’s maybe settle back down with something a little simpler. Drugged drinks are a bit of a theme throughout Pynchon, if one we’re mostly yet to tackle here. Beer spiked here with LSD, there with…

  mjhorn

  September 3, 2019

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Whisk(e)y

  Ireland, Slothrop

• Guinness Stout

  

  V. reaches its apex in Chapter 16, in Valetta, Malta, where the crew of the USS Scaffold are “getting liberty.” Stencil and Profane show up later in the chapter, but it starts out with Pappy Hod and Fat Clyde heading ashore amid sun-showers and “even a rainbow.” They made their way through the dockyard. Around them…

  mjhorn

  November 5, 2014

  Beer, V

  Fat Clyde, Ireland, Pappy Hod, Stout