Ratner's Star

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Joe, I think RS deals with many of the same concerns that Pynchon 
tackles, particularly in GR.  In fact, there are a few nods to TRP 
throughout the book.  Many references to V in descriptions of 
architecture, geometry, etc.  I admit the second part of the book with 
Logicon is difficult, language, events, speakers get jumbled but look at 
like the last part of GR where the narrative becomes dispersed, the 
narrator exiting the scene.  The paranoia is more grounded in the field 
of cosmogny and astronomy, DD's scope being much wider than Pynchon's  
politics and international cartels, though there are elements in RS of 
that too.  RS also includes discussions of kabbalah, aboriginal creation 
myths, again paralleling GR.  I'm sure there are many more.  

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
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