gilligan's wake
Then the song faded away, and a surprisingly strong-voiced announcer started spieling: "This is Double-You-Ache-Ay-Eee, your pop-classics station, where the Top Twenty's older than a lot of people who have died. Now -- say folks. When you're a nude descending a staircase under the brown fog of a winter noon, does the greed of this metropolis fill you with intolerance? Go to our sponsor: Refuge Paints. Art Refuge knows the secret of durable pigments, gang, and he's out to save you a stately, plump buck. Get on down there!..."
- Read an interview with Tom Carson.
- "Durable pigments" refers to a passage near the end of Lolita.
- (And yes, there is another reference at work. And many other ones that may have likely escaped my attention. But anyway this novel is a fantastic, engaging, way funny diversion. Read it.)
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