GR title

[Andrew Dinn]

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt writes:

> I have always wondered what others make of the title of Gravity's 
> Rainbow, both literally and figuratively. Especially in the light of 
> the following quote, which I find a little confusing.

>      Gravity, taken so for granted, is really something eerie, 
>      Messianic, extrasensory in Earth's mindbody (590).

One thing to note about the parabola of gravity's rainbow (l-case, as
opposed to `Gravity's Rainbow') is that it's bottom always point's up,
upness, like downness, having gravity as its conceptual antecedent
(`On the phrase ass-upwards in Gravity's Rainbow'?). That inextricably
ties GR to the Archangel as opposed to the Virgin (read that as
apposition or opposition).  So, for me, Gravity's Rainbow is the A
which comes, screaming, across the sky (A-and there's that rainbow
cock again. Another shade of `upness'). Gravity must also be the prime
mover for Slothrop's `blood's AVAlanche', a word which neatly
typogrifies both the outward fan of generation and inward funnel of
selection out of which pops Slothrop.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.