100 arabian nights and 1night

[Otto]

Why opposite?

They're both using myths and fairytales for their writing.

2006/9/21, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>:
> As John Barth tells us, the Arabian Nights tales (I've only read
> childrens' versions) are seminal to all modern story-telling.  See
> Chimera and The Last Story of Somebody the Sailor.  If there were no
> connections to Gravity's Rainbow, it would be surprising, but I'd like
> to hear more about the connections you see.  I think of Barth and
> Pynchon as opposite sides of a post-modern coin.
>
> On 9/19/06, bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I may be hoping, but am I the only one to see connections between arabian
> > nights tales and Gravity's Rainbow. Sure there's the connection of bigness,
> > of crudness of drugs but what I think is intersting and maybe even useful is
> > the way Pynchon and the Night's authors both get at things by telling two
> > stories with similar themes. I havnt read much of the nights yet, but
> > there's certainly bits where two different stories are about the same thing,
> > just as in GR there are those two sections right next to each other that
> > seem different yet you're sure Pynchon's getting at something in a
> > subliminal surreal way. This sounds terrible when I write it. But anybody
> > read some of the tales?
> >
>