GR vis a vis RS

[Lary Wallace]

I've recently been reacquainting myself with DeLillo's most blatantly Scientifick novel to date--you know the one: Ratner's Rainbow--and I can't help but wonder how much it owes to Pynchon and Gravity's Star. But seriously: what's the deal with these two books? We know that DeLillo admires Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow, and that he studied mathematics for two years prior to writing Ratner's Star, which was published three years after GR. Other than that, I know next to nothing else about the relationship between these two books--other than, of course, the way the lines in their titles single up against oen another so perfectly. What's the deal? Can anyone shed light on this? 
 
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