Tag: Mexico

• Tequila and Beer

  

  Happy Pynchon in Public Day once again all. To celebrate, I’ve turned again to the well-nigh inexhaustible well that is Against the Day. I find often when I crack that spine afresh for one of these drinks, I’m plunged into a passage that a) I have all but zero memory of, and b) is of […]

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  May 8, 2021

  Against The Day, Beer, Other spirits

  Bars/Places, Dwayne Provecho, Ewball Oust, Frank Traverse, Mexico, Pynchon in Public

• Imported German Beer

  

  On page 986 of Against the Day, Frank Traverse has just recently put his engineering skills to use rigging a train with an imperial fuckton of dynamite and now finds himself in the Mexican Capital. (Why the Capital is Capitalised isn’t clear to me. Was Pynchon working on Mason & Dixon at the same time […]

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  October 30, 2020

  Against The Day, Beer

  Frank Traverse, Günther von Quassel, Germany, Mexico

• A six-pack of Dos Equis

  

  Vineland hasn’t gotten much of a run around here, I think because I can barely remember what happens in it. Something to do with Reagan? And ninjas? Clearly a reread is in order sometime soon. I do remember Pynchon’s sympathies for Family as a potential seat of grace and humanity and a bulwark against Their […]

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  February 27, 2018

  Beer, Vineland

  Lager, Mexico, Prairie, Zoyd