Gravity’s Rainbow

“Sometimes things aren’t very clear, that’s all. Things look like they’re going against us, and though it always turns out fine at the end, and we can always look back and say oh of course it had to happen that way, otherwise so-and-so wouldn’t have happened—still, while it’s happening, in my heart I keep getting this terrible fear, this empty place, and it’s very hard at such times to really believe in a Plan with a shape bigger than I can see…”

-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

Ok apologies for the extremely blurry shot, but on rewatching Glass Onion, I just realized that the book Serena is reading is Gravity’s Rainbow, the book Benoit Blanc references in Knives Out when he says he “anticipates the terminus of gravity’s rainbow” (and which, btw, he says he’s never read). I love this. These films are so damn smart.

I need someone else to read this

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A thousand different molecules waited in the preterite dung. This is the sign of revealing. Of unfolding. This is one meaning of mauve, the first new color on Earth, leaping to Earth’s light from its grave miles and aeons below.

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973; London, 1995), p.116. as cited in Esther Leslie’s Synthetic Worlds Nature, Art And The Chemical Industry.

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (pt. 2, ch. 7)

[quite literally hanging over a person reading a John Grisham novel on the train] Ah, John Grisham, eh? Not exactly the most stimulating stuff, I might say! No offense, haha! You've gotta start somewhere, I suppose. We can't all read Pynchon. Are you aware of Thomas Pynchon? Quite a bit more difficult than Grisham. I've read several of his novels, myself. Can't say I've read any of Grisham's work; it's a bit simple and pedestrian for me. No offense! Haha, it takes all kinds! I'm considering re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow. Do you know Gravity’s Rainbow? It's considered by many to be Pynchon's masterpiece, and one of the most dense and difficult novels of the English language. Note I said re-read. I've already read it, and understood it, and quite enjoyed it. It's not something I'd recommend to a Grisham reader but maybe someday, haha. While I've got you here, do you happen to know whereabouts I may find some shrooms? Psilocybin, that is. They're a mushroom with hallucinogenic properties, and they have a long history of usage for religious purposes. Are you familiar with Timothy Leary? He wrote about his experiences with them extensively, and even lost his job at Harvard over it. You know about Harvard, I'm sure. So, what's the score then, friend? Know where I can get shrooms? Hello? Excuse me? Ignoring me, eh? Should have guessed! It's my own fault, really. Thinking a Grisham reader would know where to get shrooms, ha! It's really for people who want to unlock the full potential of human consciousness. Not exactly something you'd expect to concern a Grisham reader. Definitely more of a Pynchon thing, I suppose. Well, could you at least lend me a few bucks for my time? Excuse me? Hello? You don't need to act stuck up, friend. It's a bit, shall we say, unjustified for a Grisham reader to act all high and mighty.

From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

Do I read gravity’s rainbow?

for all the brains out there aglow with thoughts thoughts thoughts lighting my way 😘

“Wanted to look at the sea. I’ve never seen it. I am, you know, related, by blood, to the sea”

"You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are "yours" and which are "mine." It's past sorting out. We're both being someone new now, someone incredible."

Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1974, P207