The Ice Storm & GR

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Carvill John wrote:

> Apologies if this was posted before. Rick Moody on the historical  
> importance of GR:
>
> At the time, I didn't really know how to be faithful to history  
> without cultural detritus. So I had to have all that seventies junk  
> in there. I read every book mentioned in The Ice Storm. I reread  
> Games People Play and I'm Okay, You're Okay, all that shit. And I  
> went to the library and read newspapers and magazines from the  
> seventies and I watched Electra Glide in Blue and Billy Jack. One  
> tangent I pursued was strictly superstitious: in order to channel  
> 1973 I reread Gravity's Rainbow, which was published that year.  
> Because to my way of thinking, Gravity's Rainbow, along with  
> Watergate, was the most important historical event of that year. I  
> think there are only two references to it in the entire novel, and  
> they're very obscure-you'd really have to be hardcore to get them.  
> But I felt like I wanted to have that book in my consciousness  
> while I was writing The Ice Storm.
>
>
> http://yanko.lib.ru/books/db/moody-about.htm
>
> Now, which two references is he talking about???
>
>
The epigraph for part 4 may be  one of  them.

What?