Gravity's Rainbow re-read

[Glenn Scheper]

I figured the "only one" of each thing inveigled Plato's forms:
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/platform.htm
Plato's Theory of Forms
It is the material world, perceived through the senses, that is changing.
It is the realm of forms, perceived through the mind, that is permanent and 
immutable.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: NP: Gravity's Rainbow re-read


> I'm on my first re-read of GR, and made a connection I hadn't made on the 
> first go-round: In the Kenosha Kid sequence,  Crutchfield the Westwardman 
> [sending his rockets westward?] and his Pard, Whappo, Afro-Scandinavian 
> are Slothrop's precognition of Weissmann and Enzian/Gottfried.  Not sure 
> what "the only one"  means in this context.  "Only one fight, one victory, 
> one loss."  Anyone have any insights into this, or know of any good 
> articles or essays that discuss this part of the KK seaquence?
>
> Laura
>