Gravity's Rainbow, A book about war?

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Eric Rosenbloom wrote:
> 
> 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

Also see in that OCU Law Review "Gravity's Rainbow, The
Anabaptist Rebellions In  Germany, 1525-35, And The
Unfortunate Traveler" by Terry Reilly



Reilly, taking off from Mendelson's reading of the ideas P
"inherited from Weber", specifically,  that pervasive
"reality of process" (note also this relates to the strata,
geological and epochal, the folds, cusps', secular history
and laws (laws of Man, of God, of Physics)  


"...narrative involves not a chronological linear historical
exegesis, but both an excavation of previous events and
reconsideration of the chronotopes of previous narrative."
page 712

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