One subplot in this novel rests on the fact that Pepsi-Cola is a perfect anagram for Episcopal.
One subplot in this novel rests on the fact that Pepsi-Cola is a perfect anagram for Episcopal. One story told in this novel concerns a man who hired substitutes for both the Union Army and the Confederate Army during the Civil War, only to have those substitutes kill each other at Antietam.  Its protagonist, who is obsessed with watching documentaries about fish on PBS, opens the novel hospitalized after being run over by his own car as he was attempting to hotwire it. Another of this novel's major plots concerns the elaborate modern sculpture Cyclone Seven, which sparks the "Save Spot!" movement when its sculptor secures its injunction preventing a trapped dog from being freed from it. Its protagonist thinks that the famous director Jonathan Livingston Siegal's blockbuster The Blood in the Red White and Blue ripped off his play Once at Antietam, which is heavily excerpted in this novel. This novels protagonist Oscar Crease is wrapped up in many of its dozens of (*) lawsuits, a fact presaged by the opening line "Justice? -- You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law." For 10 points, name this fourth novel by William Gaddis.
One subplot in this novel rests on the fact that Pepsi-Cola is a perfect anagram for Episcopal.
A {Frolic of His Own}