Page Eighteen

“Things have fallen roughly into layers, over a base of bureaucratic smegma that sifts steadily to the bottom, made up of millions of tiny red and brown curls of rubber eraser, pencil shavings, dried tea or coffee stains, traces of sugar and Household Milk, much cigarette ash, very fine black debris picked and flung from typewriter ribbons, decomposing library paste, broken aspirins ground to powder.”

Photo taken at Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar

• Gravity’s Rainbow* by Thomas Pynchon
  
• Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow* by Zak Smith