halfway

[Edward Folger]

>It seems I'm stuck in the middle of Gravity's Rainbow
> just like every other Pynchon-person I meet.  It's 
>becoming a sort of ritual greeting, like "Hey, I see 
>you're stuck in the middle of Gravity's Rainbow--what          
>a coincidence, so am I!" and so on.  

If you're halfway through, it's easy, you're at the apogee ... just         
 close your eyes and f a l l. When I read this amazing trajectory when       
 it was first published, I was convinced that part of it's design was        
 to make it unfilmable ... the ending convinced me I was right. Did anyone   
 out there actually see Prof. Irwin Corey accept the National Book award ford
 for Pynchon, in his patented doubletalk?