Tag: Katje

• Oude Genever

  Now we’re getting somewhere. The beaten track just slipped out of sight. Oude Genever.It’s totally obscure to me, but gets a couple of runs in Pynchon, making a grand debut in Gravity’s Rainbow then popping its head up again in Mason & Dixon. In GR, it’s episode fourteen and we’re flashing back in Katje’s memory/imagining to Holland, to the…

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  September 13, 2014

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, Other spirits

  Blicero, Genever, Gottfried, Holland, Katje, Pynchon

• Brandy

  Seeing as our friend Tyrone Slothrop’s Pilsner Urquell was such a good idea, we’d better see what else he can recommend us. Or actually–he gets through some classy girlfriends, some of them must have pretty good taste. Let’s try Katje. Mysterious Katje. Near the start of the second part of Gravity’s Rainbow (“Un Perm’ au Casino Hermann…

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  June 28, 2014

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Other spirits

  Bardinet, Brandy, France, Katje, Pynchon, Slothrop