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[Tom Stanton]

At 08:04 PM 6/4/97 -0500, Jules Siegel wrote:
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>When I mentioned this thread, my beautiful wife, Anita Brown, said, "Read
>Gravity's Rainbow for its sociological information on the late '60s and
>early '70s post-Vietnam mentality." I think she's on to something. I feel
>that although Gravity's Rainbow may be set in late WWII, it's really about
>the crash of the Psychedelic Revolution -- "What goes up, must come down."

Absolutely! I've never thought of GR as a WW2 novel at all, but as an
allegorical tale about Amerika (as are all his books).

>Showing Chrissie and me to our room looking into the forest when we returned
>from Palm Beach in 1971, Jim Brewster said, "There's no room for jive-ass
>warriors in the Zone, Jules," and he handed me a machine gun.

Hopefully you emptied the magazine once he left...

Tom