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 As to the specifics of this lapse, well, good luck.

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What?! How dare you, Thomas Pynchon! Finally a hint at an adult revelation and you give us the old "Well, you're not going to hear it from me, you horny goat!" First you have the kids pass by a Reindeer Show, then you have Chick and Darby go backstage at a hoochie coochie show but only off-panel and now you hint at some committed sin and refuse to describe it! I'm getting pretty sick of you not titillating me!

I mean, Gravity's Rainbow had boners blasting off higgledy-piggledy and smashing vaginal craters all over London not to mention that disgusting stuff Pudding was into! So I pick up Against the Day thinking, "Pynchon loves sexual metaphor! This is going to be great!" And then it's all Boy's Adventure Novel shenanigans!

I haven't been this blue-balled since reading The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker!

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 "Some social, ain't it! Why, every durn professor of flight from here to Timbuctoo's flying in, 's what it looks like."

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If this were a Nicholson Baker novel, I'd expect this to be a metaphor for a writing convention. But it's Pynchon so it's probably a metaphor for penises. Although, what if all of Nicholson Baker's sex and penis references that were metaphors for writing were just double metaphors coming back around to penises and sex?! Now I want to re-read The Everlasting Story of Nory!