Bowman/Pulse

Michael Robert Scotton mrscott at ozemail.com.au
Tue Jun 4 10:04:03 CDT 1996


Will L writes that:

>Bowman's error about "the
>light-bulb down the toilet" seems not like some funny intentional mistake but,
>well, a real error.  And the error of finding either of these two passages (the
>harmonica down the toilet or "The Story of Byron the Bulb") to be trivial seems
>like exactly the kind of error you would make if you absolutely DIDN"T GET
>Gravity's Rainbow at all.

Just for the record, Byron does actually make a journey: "...and plop! there
goes Byron in the water and flusssshhhh! away the waste lines to the Elbe
estuary.".

Not sure about those Dylan lyrics though...

Michael Scotton






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