Re. Blicero

[Dave Monroe]

Took me a while to find this one again, but, again,
indeed, the Rocket 00000 does not come down in the
book.  In a certain sense, it cannot.  That "nuclear
sublime," that unrepresentability of the absolutely
catastrophic ...

Remember the failures of The Day After?  The worst is
when the missiles fly.  Though if you want to see a
successfully devastating post-nuclear holocaust film,
try Testament, which succeeds precisely by not
representing the event head on, but, rather, its
effects from afar.  Any comments on literary successes
would be appreciated.   Nevil Shute's On the Beach?

Anyway, had the Rocket, "our common nightmare, the
Bomb," actually fallen--and I think that is ultimately
the cautionary note the text is sounding, that that is
where those "curves" might "converge"--we would not be
around to read Gravity's Rainbow, had it ever been
written, published in the first place.  

Anyway, some recommended reading for anyone interested
...

Brians, Paul.  Nuclear Holocausts:
   Atomic War in Fiction,1945-1984.
   Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1986.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/nh-supplement.html

Ferguson, Frances.  "The Nuclear Sublime."
   Diacritics 14:2 (Summer 1984): 4-10. 

Schwenger, Peter.  Letter Bomb: Nuclear
   Holocaust and the Exploding Word.
   Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.

Solomon, J. Fisher.  Discource and
   Reference in the Nuclear Age.
   Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991.

Thta "final delta-t" might be a little less
infinitesimal than it seemed in 1973, but the clock is
still ticking ...

http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock.html

"Now everybody--"

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> we cannot even be sure about gottfried,
> since his rocket does not 
> come down inside the book. "there is time ..."
> 
>       
>         yours, kai  
> 


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