gr question

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Wed Sep 10 16:51:00 CDT 1997


Perhaps croquet could fill the void writes:
> does anyone know where in _gravity's rainbow_ the phrase "history is an
> aggregate of lost moments" occurs?  i remember it coming up in the grgr...
> the reason i ask is because on first page of _underworld_, delillo writes
> that "history is longing on a large scale", or something to that effect.

It turned up (qith last misquoted as lost) in GRGR(9) and comes from
page 149 line 1 of the Viking/Picador edition.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five



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