Thomas Pynchon's drinks cabinet

One blogger has started a quest to drink every alcoholic beverage mentioned in the enigmatic author's oeuvre. Chivas Regal scotch, anyone?

It's the sort of project only Thomas Pynchon can inspire the author whose devoted fans hold an annual Pynchon in Public day, have created a huge playlist of songs mentioned in Inherent Vice and extensively, obsessively annotated his books. Thanks to Penguin Press for alerting us to a venture that seems well worth publicising: one blogger's plan to drink "everything mentioned however peripherally in every Pynchon book and jabber... a bit about what it's like".

The appropriately named Drunk Pynchon blogger is not doing it all at once. The project began in May, and there's been "Chivas Regal scotch", as mentioned in V. ("I'm tempted to say that a screaming comes across the tongue ... But no screaming comes. It's just beautifully smooth and syrupy. Tastes warm and a bit spicy. A little banana-ey? Smells terrific too").

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