Notes (and rebuttals) to A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

[Dave Monroe]

Notes (and rebuttals) to A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
by Steven Weisenburger

Copyright (c) Ben Teague 1989-2005

So in 1988 the U. of Georgia Press brings out this book, and I along
with many other Pynchon readers gobble it up. In some respects
Weisenburger's work is not bad--indeed, in some it's quite good: You
and I might have missed all the Kaballah imagery.

But humanist Weisenburger was not up to Pynchon's history and
technology references or his use of German (and French, Dutch,
Russian, Spanish) expressions. I made a lot of notes--rebutting what
he said, correcting many spelling errors, and amplifying and inserting
entries. This page is a transcript of my notes, updated to 2005.

It's only fair to point out that Weisenburger did not have Google, a
site that has made much of his work obsolete so that readers don't
have to depend on the Companion as they did in 1988....

http://www.benteague.com/books/titles/gravitys.html