subdebs

The second violin happens to be Gustav Schlabone, S-ure Bummer's frequent unwelcome doping partner, "Captain Horror," as he is affectionately but not inaccurately known around Der Platz-and playing viola is Gustav's accomplice in sui-cidally depressing everybody inside 100 meters 'radius wherever they drop in (who's that tapping and giggling at your door, Fred and Phyllis?), Andre Omnopon, of the feathery Rilke mustaches and Porky Pig tattoo on stomach (which is becoming the "hep" thing lately: even back in the Zone of the Interior the American subdebs all think it's swoony).

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978