In a message dated 12/13/1999 10:58:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, ed361@yahoo.com writes: << Speaking of Trainspotting (I only saw the movie), when the main character has the fantasy of jumping into the toilet and swimming around down there to find his pills, did any other folks immediately flash on, '...Hey I wonder if this guy had ever read Gravity's Rainbow at some point in his life?...There's some definite similarities here to the scene where old Slothrop is being dumped head first into the bowl by those miscreants at that dance he attended...' - Ed >> Oh lord, yes, I'd only seen the movie and read GR afterwards, and thought the same thing...definite similarities there, not just in content but in what was being said too... I think trainspotting wins the prize for the most artfully digusting movie I've ever seen in my life :) Wonderful film.... Jim