a quasi-new topic re: GR: the title

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 6, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Keith McMullen wrote:

> the title has always evoked the title finnegans wake in my mind  
> another book which opens with dreaming, references to the "first"  
> rainbow presented to Noah (Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen  
> brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen  
> ringsome on the aquaface), sky-screaming  
> (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhou 
> nawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) and a guy falling and crashing  
> (The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the  
> pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of  
> humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest  
> of his tumptytumtoes)
>
>

Finnegans Wake is better than the standard arc-of-the-rocket inspired  
interpretation, but I'd prefer something more intuitive.

To me the title of Pynchon's book suggests something bright and  
pleasurable (mindlessly pleasurable) . beyond the Gravity of it all.  
Gravity's Rainbow.

The Dream I like is the  one Judy Garland sings about while she and  
Toto are still in Kansas. Somewhere over the rainbow . . .

Or there's Finian's Rainbow--another pot of  gold, the pot of gold at  
Fort Knox Kentucky in fact.

Gravity's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow

Finnegan's Rainbow

Finnegans Wake