Pynchon & Kubrick

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* It has been noted here that "Gravity's Rainbow"
could hardly have been written the way it was 
without Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned 
To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" [1963]. Always
wondered whether the two artists ever met (anyone?). 
What seems safe to say is that Kubrick smuggled in
an indirect TRP allusion into "Eyes Wide Shut" 
where a Glen Cove street-sign appears during a
nightly car ride. While this has probably been
mentioned here, myself I didn't realize it when 
I saw the movie yet learned this just recently 
from an essay by Thomas Hettche you can find under "http://www.hettche.de/essays/nowahuta.htm".
Imagine Stanley sitting in one of the 100 rooms of
his spooky English castle, reading GR and taking 
down notes on Gerhardt von Göll ... 

KFL +

PS. Feels so good to read GR again!