They , the Rocket, death, the inanimate

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 22 07:07:37 CST 2002



MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 2/21/2002 8:12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> millison at online-journalist.com writes:
> 
> << [...] Pynchon's early and middle works, from V. through The Crying of Lot
> 49 (1966) to a culmination in Gravity's Rainbow (1973), express a vision
> similar to Foucault's of a controlling regime just behind events and just
> outside perception or consciousness, which facelessly directs history,
> providing the possibility of unifying widely dispersed phenomena. In V., ...
> etc.>>
> 
> Where'd you find this, Cliff Notes?

He bang on the List just
to drive him crazy
He drum  it loud just to rattle his rage
strum it loud just to battle this sage
cackle a bucket full of old mackerel in the sun
And I tells  Mrs. Harland to fetch down my gun
cackle a bucket of old mackerel in the sun
Tells Mrs. Harland to fetch down my gun
I'm gonna beat him into contradiction
Beat him into contradiction



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