Literature Scenes with Vomiting

[burntpunk]

Do any of you litheads know of any famous literature scenes that entail the act of vomiting?

[Veho]

Emma Bovary is sick towards the end of Madame Bovary. It's not a detailed description though, it's quite vague actually.

Edit: I'm actually not even sure if she is physically sick...

Here's the quote:
"She was overcome by such a sudden wave of nausea that she barely had time to grab her handkerchief from under the pillow."

[Manchegan]

Is there no thread to which Don Quixote is not the answer? Behold the following:

"Sancho came so close that his eyes were almost inside his master's mouth; by this time the balm had taken effect in Don Quixote's stomach, and just as Sancho looked into his mouth, he threw up, more vigorously than if he were firing a musket, everything he had inside, and all of it hit the compassionate squire in the face.

...he was so disgusted by this that his stomach turned over and he vomitted his innards all over his master, and the two of them were left as splendid as pearls."

[Drkshadow03]

The Exorcist, of course. At least, I would imagine the book contains that famous Pea Soup scene of the movie. I could be wrong. I've never read it.

[Mark F.]

Not really vomiting, but one of my favourite parts of The Catcher in the Rye is when a drunk Holden, feeling nauseous, pretends to himself that he's been shot in the stomach.

[kelby_lake]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Brideshead Revisited. Charles first meets Sebastian when Sebastian vomits in Charles' room!

[AimusSage]

I think Crash by Ballard has quite a bit of vomiting. It's been a while since I read it, but I seem to recall vomit being a part of the weird stuff that went on in that novel. Can't recall any specific scenes though. Just read the novel, it's pretty weird, sick and interesting.

[Barbarous]

I may be wrong, but I think The Tin Drum by Grass has a scene or scenes where there is vomiting/vomit.

[March Hare]

The narrator in Hunger throws up a couple times. I think in At Swim-Two-Birds there's puking. Definitely in 2666.

May I ask why you want to know?

[FalseReality]

Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem) has a brief vomiting scene.

[mono]

The Exorcist, of course. At least, I would imagine the book contains that famous Pea Soup scene of the movie. I could be wrong. I've never read it.
Indeedy, and lots of it! The film adaption, as always, left a lot out, and I would call the book many times over more unsettling and disturbing than the movie. Blatty had a ridiculously gruesome tale to tell! :eek: