Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins

[Christinko]

I don't know how many of you are Tom Robbins fans, but I am....

Just read his 1993 (latest) novel "Villa Incognito" about 3 MIAs who escaped some southeastern Asian prison during the Vietnam War but decided to stay there and disappear....and what happened in the next 30 years.

Drugs, high-wire acts, CIA, and Japanese folklore all are the focus.

BUT the novel starts with a Tanuki parachuting by his gingundous scrotum to the Earth.

Sex, fun, politics, philosophy, history and verbal veracity are Robbins' fortes, and by midpoint in the story after a weaker than normal start, Robbins is in full stride. He is the king of metaphor, analogy, and simile and you'll read it slowly to savor the language.

[Chicago Jake]

Sorry, but all my searches on "gingundous" yielded nothing. Can you explain?........Jake

[Hazelita]

My guess would be that it's an invented word that means massive, gigantic, huge, very large, etc.

[Ardbeg... innit]

Maybe a typo of

1. gigundous a way to define realy big or great things in a cool way. As in "that elaphant shit is gigundous"

from www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gigundous

I think Chris just got overly excited by the visual and ended up typing "gingundous scrotum" ;D

[Christinko]

I typed it on purpose because that word was made up by my girlfriend Miriam...and has always amused me. You whiners. Chill. It's called humor. Grin!

Yeah, and I mistyped it with the N after gin...should have been gigundous as mentioned above.

I wasn't overly excited...just stupid. When I'm overly excited, you'll see a snail trail. I promise.