TRP-L: Who wrote Gravity's Rainbow?

[Andrew Dinn]

Jorn Barger writes:

> 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?

This one is so obvious. It's the hidden cameraman whose use of
controlled substances seems to deny the very possibility of control,
whose address straight to camera and to Pirate is also straight to the
readers' paranoid mind, who is ready expecting Roger, Katje and The
Eagle of Tooting when they come to sign up for The Counterforce (how
do I find that dotted line?), whose mentor, Dumbo, carries a white
feather enabling him to *defy gravity*.

Osbie Feel, of course.


Andrew Dinn
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