Picturing the Void

[Ya Sam]

"When I heard that artist Zak Smith had decided to illustrate Gravity’s 
Rainbow, page by page, images came into my head, my own imagined version, 
but I was startled to find it somewhat murky. I saw a faceless Slothrop, the 
protagonist-searcher, with a rocket inside him only visible in a certain 
glare-light, moving through an industrialized cityscape lit with the oranges 
and swirling whites depicted on the cover of my 1973 Viking edition. I saw a 
mandala of unhinged images encircling an ill-defined character: uniformed 
boys and their toys; benzene, radios, some sort of secret railroad of the 
rocket; hippie-physicist-brain-wave kabbalah — but no face for Slothrop."


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