Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties America

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

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...it would be amazing if Gravity's Rainbow is now
read anywhere outside of graduate schools or
especially self-flagellating book clubs...
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...and the paranoia that is at the heart
of Thomas Pynchon's brilliant and unreadable novel

have to differ; I wonder what that guy reads for pleasure?  I suggest he's missing some crucial receptors if he doesn't recognize the fun to be had

a-and paranoia would be more like closer to the spleen of GR than the heart
Wouldn't it?

Just as Lolita was really about N's love affair with the American language (he said so himself, right?) paranoia is a feature - or maybe even an organ - of GR, but certainly not the heart; I'd render my understanding of the heart of the big fellow as a systole of magnum opus (Friar Thomas elucidates it all) and a diastole of Goedel's Theorem (or vice versa); with a pericardium of memento mori (and a twist of lemon) -
 but I hope to understand it better some day