TRP-L: Who wrote Gravity's Rainbow?
Patrick P. Lynch
plynch at eis.calstate.edu
Mon Aug 22 14:37:00 CDT 1994
I'll bite, for the heck of it. What about a repentant Jessica? A saved
Blicero from beyond, realizing the errors of his ways? The e-coli
bacteria itself? Katje? Gottfried? Or are these, a la Ambrose Bierce,
the final thoughts of the bomb itself?
But I agree that it would be hard to think Slothrop wrote the book.
Maybe it was the real assassin, of course, the same person, of Malcolm X
and Kennedy?
Brainstorming on the pynchon-list...
On Mon, 22 Aug 1994, Jorn Barger wrote:
> Who wrote Gravity's Rainbow, *among its characters*?
>
> Oedipa could easily have written Lot 49, and Zoyd is very likely to
> blame for the laziness and self-pity of Vineland. But there ain't no
> way Tyrone ever managed GR! He just didn't *think* enough...
>
> Would any of its characters have been equal to the task?
>
> jorn
>
patrick lynch plynch at eis.calstate.edu
"The poets down here don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be..." Springsteen
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