getting it

[Richard Nance]

Michael Scotton says:

>seems like exactly the kind of error you would make if you absolutely DIDN"T
>GET Gravity's Rainbow at all.

I'm new around here, and hate to be a weenie, and I'm really not trying to
be difficult, but, erm, what? I can get new pair of shoes, or sick, or a
punchline, or a dog-eared copy of _Gravity's Rainbow_ off the shelf, but I
don't *get* _Gravity's Rainbow_, if by that you mean being able to sum it up
in a few pithy well-placed thoughts.  

You probably don't mean that.  
Or maybe I'm just a moron (I don't get a lot of things). 

Since, however, there now appears to be a whole class of errors that I'm all
set to commit (ah, hell), I'd love for somebody to clarify things.  Boil
that stew down to the dinner party aside... 

(I dare ya)

R.
UChicago 

 
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'But, if you are *certain*, isn't it that you are shutting your eyes in the
face of doubt?' -- They are shut.
                           Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, IIxi 
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