ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>

>Well, remember that I said the chaos was the flip side of the
>encyclopedic nature of his writing.  GR has been argued to have a very 
>definite structure corresponding to a nine moth's birth cycle, though I 
>can't find the reference [...]

Steven Weisenburger made the nine-month argument in his brilliant "A 
Gravity's Rainbow Companion" (an updated version of which will be published 
later this month, including maps and all!), but I've always felt that he 
made too much of this fact. I think Weisenburger really wanted to defend GR 
against the stupid charges of carelessness leveled at the novel from some 
quarters, and therefore he put too much emphasis on the patterns he 
detected.
Certainly, there are numerous local and some more global patterns in GR, but 
I'd still argue that GR - more than any other Pynchon novel - is meant to 
come across as chaotic. Of course it's not truly chaotic - the chaos is a 
carefully constructed effect - but I'm pretty sure that the form of GR is 
meant as a structural analogy to all the mindless pleasures going on in the 
Zone

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