Boomer myopia

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Oh really? Are you actually saying that Slothrop's trip down the toilet, 
Pirate's banana breakfast, Pavel's Leunahalluzinationen, Byron the Bulb's 
adventures, o-or that giant OCTOPUS! a-and all those CREAM PIES! aren't 
simply about World War II or Vietnam?


>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>To: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Boomer myopia
>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:27 -0600
>
>On 11/24/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>  > "Gravity's Rainbow, while ostensibly about World War II, was actually 
>>about American Cold War hegemony and Vietnam"
>>
>>The word "actually" seems to be the real culprit in this sentence, and 
>>should perhaps be replaced with a humble "also." It's double refraction, 
>>innit? Look through the crystal of GR and see two wars!
>
>Actually, it's about a WHOLE lot more than either of these wars!

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