Actually about Gravity's Rainbow

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

David Casseres writes:

[Ourobouros discussion excised]

> So, my question:  where else does Pynchon give us a creation myth?  None 
> come to my mind; strikingly, there is no creation myth offered for the 
> Rocket.  Things like the Rocket, and the Schwartzkommando, usw., are 
> mostly already there at the point where Pynchon starts telling their 
> stories, even when he starts back in the past.  Is he just not very 
> interested in the origins of these things?

Perhaps you have answered yourself. The serpent eats its tail because
it has no beginning and no end, it just recurs on itself - nature only
knows transformation, after all (and don't forget all those aromatic
rings transferring their structure on through from one generation to
the next, saying Fuck You to Ole Mr Death He Self).

Another (cyclic) creation myth is that Baby Jeeter visited by Roger
and Jess with a black angel from Jamaica providing the heavenly
chorus. This one is cyclic because the new piece of creation nestling
in the crib is about to be slaughtered to appease the sun king and
make him return (don't credit that `official' mythology).


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.