IV "the wave of the future"

[Rob Jackson]

Tore:

> the phrase "the wave of the future" is an old
> favourite of Pynchon's, occuring several times in GR: Both in the  
> Semyavin
> quote (p. 258), in Jamf's lecture about silicon (580), and in a song  
> about
> Baby Bulbs (p. 648). A-and in IV it occurs at least four times: On  
> pages
> 33, 195, 235 and 366.

The phrase was "popularized as the title of an essay (1940) by Anne  
Morrow Lindbergh" but figures prominently in Edward Albee's Who's  
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962, Mike Nichols' film 1966) which would  
be my best guess for where Pynchon picked it up. It has obviously  
stuck with him.

all best