π Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Quotes from this book
manure [...] dead leaves [...] and the odd unstomachable meal thrown or vomited there by this or that sensitive epicureanβall got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable topsoil in which anything could grow
Presently, out of breath, they arrive at the pier where the Badass and its division, four haze-gray piglets, are tied up, to find the runcible spoon fight just under way at the center of a weaving, cheering crowd of civilian and military drunks.