Gravity's Rainbow, A book about war?

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

   the fork in the road america never took shines up again in these depolarized 
   spaces of the zone ... kfl



Eric Rosenbloom schrieb:
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> 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.
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> 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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