Actually about Gravity's Rainbow

[David Casseres]

Thomas Vieth sez

>The circle-motif, I think, is indeed central to both content and 
>structure of GR. Just think of the cyclic narrative technique of very 
>many of the episodes. I prefer calling it a "mandala structure", as it 
>infers the influence of Carl Jung which I find is rather strong. Should 
>anyone be interested in hearing more on this very issue, I'd be glad to 
>provide the info. 

"Mandala structure" is appropriate, especially for the image of the 
Serpent.  We can say, then, that Pynchon protests the degradation of the 
mandala to a mere cyclic molecular structure....  I agree, also, that 
there is a lot of Jung in Pynchon; in particular I often feel that all 
the characters, and the narrator, and the author, are meant to have a 
shared unconscious, in which the readers are invited to participate.

How about it, foax?  Is that another of the things Us p-listers have in 
common?  Is it, maybe, even, The Thing, the source of paranoid revelation 
-- to quote roughly, "the leading edge of the perception that everything 
is connected?"



Cheers,
David