<div dir="ltr">Hi Smoke,<div><br></div><div>Â Â If you don't mind a bit of intellectual history for backdrop I'd recommend The Crisis of Reason: European Thought 1848-1914 by J.W. Burrow and also The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes.</div><div><br></div><div>Â But that's just my two bits on one of the many angles to read from. A P-lister by the name of Alice would tell us to check out the subject of labor.</div><div><br></div><div>Â I really enjoy how AtD links back up to so many Pynchonian themes or events. After all it takes us back to V. but at the same time points forward to his two later novels. I mean don't you think that Lew is a bit like the keystone in an arch that connects both coasts and characters. Early questers (e.g. pseudo-detective Oedipa on West Coast) Â linked with later genre gumshoe questers (Doc or Maxine)?</div><div><br></div><div>its late, gotta sleep.</div><div>ciao</div><div>mc</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Smoke Teff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smoketeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">smoketeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I solicited some opinions on what I might read before this most recent reread of Gravity's Rainbow. All your help made it the best read yet.<br>
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Anything anyone would recommend before taking another crack at AtD? -<br>
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