Gravity's Rainbow, A book about war?

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Scott Badger wrote:
> As I once suggested back in ye olde dayes of MDMD, it seems to me, also,
> that Pynchon's interests are drawn to the space opened up by a war - both as
> a rent in the covering fabric, and as a landscape un-fenced.  To paraphrase
> Squalidozzi, historical moments of unlimited hope, and danger (shamelessly
> lifted from Graham Benton's article on anarchy and Pynchon in the OCU Law
> Review).  The Zone, of course, in GR but perhaps even more so with the
> Revolutionary War in MD and the zone they call America.  That we mark up
> the, briefly, blank slate with the same old patterns doesn't mean we
> *couldn't* come up with something new.

I too thought Mason & Dixon in America was similar in spirit to Slothrop
et al. in The Zone . . . a moment of freedom and possibility for the preterite.

--Eric R



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