04-04-2009, 11:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2009, 11:30 AM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:I read Gravitys Rainbow five times but it was in the middle of the Reagan Administrations so it counts as 15.
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:It is like reading the small intestines of history backwards and forwards between 1941 and 1966-73. I find new allusions that it is making in history all the time-- eg I just last night was reading of Der Springer Press in Adenauers West Germany CIA country.
I have to agree that readers of DPF will really dig this book. Their headstart in footnoting the paranoia of history will be a huge headstart. I just sort of assumed that everyone had read it.
Gravity's Rainbow burrows deep down into the hidden, suppressed, crannies of history, into the archetypal Zone where everything burns and everything shines.
Where everything is theatre.
Or is it?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war