GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

[Dave Monroe]

A flashing thought: modernism giving way to, dissipating into, postmodernism as Gravity's
Rainbow, er, "progresses"?  A la Tyrone Slothrop?  All those little, seemingly less and
less, I don't know, diegetic, all those undigested, if I may, narratives, as the novel
unfolds, reaching a fevered pitch, critical mass, whatever, in the final section, esp.
near the end ... would, of, course, allegorize the very shifts in politics, economics,
society, culture, whatever, Gravity's Rainbow seems to be mapping ...

Paul Mackin wrote:

> Postmodernism may be something like Slothrop near
> the end of the book.
>
> "We were never that concerned with Slothrop qua Slothrop," a spokesman
> for the Counterforce admitted recently in an interview with the Wall
> Street Journal.
>
> Interviewer: You mean, then, that he was more a rallying-point.
>
> Spokesman: No, not even that. Opinion even at the start was divided. It
> was one of our fatal weaknessnes. [I'm sure you want to hear about fatal
> weaknesses.] Some called him a "pretext." Others felt that he . . . .
>
> p. 738
>
>                 P.